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BINGMAMTON 



PAST and PRESENT 



ITS 



COMMERCE, TRADE AND INDUSTRIES 



DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTORICAL 



Evening Herald Co. 
1894. 



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BINGHAMTON, N. Y. 



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CITY OF BINGHAMTON. 



THE Cit} of Binghamton bears the distinction of Susquehanna and Chenango rivers. It was then a deep 

being the onlj citj in the United States, as re foresl traversed only by Indian traders and hunters, 

ported bj the commercial agencies, to show an increase The two streams, (lowing swift and clear from their 

in bank clearings during the disastrous year of L893 as mountain sources, appealed to the business instinct of 

compared with the preceding year. This indicates thai il.n~rliar.ly pioneers. They saw there was wealth in 

its industries are uncommonly healthful and diversified, the splendid pines which skirted the waters, and thai 

h also means thai its business men are progressive, and the result was thai a permanent settlement wa* estab 

thai the city is unusually well situated to command the lished at what was then known as "Chenango Point " 
markets of 
the world. 




the city. 

The re was 

scarcely a 

pe rcepti" 

diminu tioi 

in the vol 

umeof trade 

during the worsl of the crisis; and this, it musl bead- children, and settled near the prescnl site of the County 

mitted.isprettj good proof of the solidity of its interests, Poor house during the summer of 17-7. A third child, 

and the intelligence and vigor of their management. Amasa Leonard, born soon after the family's location 

In the year 1786 a wealthy English resident of Phil here, was the first white child born in Br nc County. 

adelphia named William Bingham secured a patent The advenl of Captain Leonard was s i followed- by 

granting him a large trad of land in Southern New the coming of Colonel William Rose, his brother and 
York. It embraced the beautiful site now occupied by Amos Draper, this quartette forming the nucleus of 
the city named in his honor at the confluence of the whal in a feu years became a flourishing hamlet. 



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B1NGHAMT0N PAST AND PRESENT. 



Other early residents were Joshua Whitney, ithe father 
of General Joshua Whitney), General William Whit- 
ney, and Henry Green, all of whom still have descend- 
ants in this city. 

Early records show that William Bingham was a 
liberal and just man. He authorized his agent to sell 
desirable part- of his grant at so reasonable a price and 
on such favorable terms that before the close of the 
year there were more than a dozen families upon it. 
lie also conveyed to the county gratuitously 



large 



The first house was built at what is still nearly the geo- 
graphical .enter of the city— the corner of Court and 
Water streets. Before the close of the eighteenth 
century there was a snug cluster of homes established 
in Chenango Point, and it had become an important 
trading post. It was so isolated and so distant from 
any other settlement that intercourse was difficult. It 
naturally followed that the pioneers were not always 
well provided with food, although fish and game kept 
the wolf from the door at all seasons. 

There is nothing of historical interest to relate of 

the e a r 1 y 




ird : Samuel Harding, who built on 
the East side of the Chenango; Captain John Saw- 
telle. a man named Butler and Solomon Moore. These 
were followed the next year by about twenty families, 
and the permanence id' the place was fixed. 

Thirteen years after the grant to Mr. Bingham a 
charter was obtained to build a bridge across the Chen- 
ango riser. It was elected where the Courl street 
bridge now stands, and this it was which drew the 

little settlement fr it- old site at the foot of Mount 

Prospect to the point of confluence of the two rivers. 



Bingham himself. lie possessed immense wealth, 
owning a number of -hips, and carried on a mercantile 
business which extended into nearly every part of the 
world. He married the daughter of Thomas M. Will- 
ing of Philadelphia, the first president of the United 
State- bank. His two daughters married Henry and 
Alexander Baring, the eminent London bankers whose 
failure caused a sensation about two years ago. Mr. 
Bingham was ;i member of congress for some year-. 
He died in London in 1804. 
The first Burvey of the village was made in 1S00 



B1NGI1AMT0N PAST AND PRESENT. 



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under the direction of Mr. Bingham, al which time the 
streets were regularly laid out. The firsl two streets 
were Court and Water, the latter running only from 

lain- a resurvoy was made by Roswcll Mar-hall, bul it 
was not until L835 thai a complete survey was made. 
Accordingto its lines, which were laid oul by William 
Went/., the village was about two miles long East and 

West by nearly the same distance North an. I South. 

The first stage line to run through the village was 
established in 1^17 by Teter <§ Huntington, and tan 
from Owego to Ncwburgh. One year later a line was 
established to Ithaca, and in L 822 another to Geneva. 
John Willoughby of Oxford commenced running a 
stage line from that place to Binghamton about the 
same time, and in IS25 one was 'laid out to I'tica. 
There was a line established to Montrose three years 
later connecting the enterprising settlement with every 
part of the compass, and adding greatly to its growth 
and pro-pci it v . 

The village of Binghamton was incorporated by an 
act of the Legislature on the third day of May. LS34. 
Tbc corporate tract was divided into five wards. On 
the first Tuesday of the following dune the people met 
and elected as Board of Trustees: Samuel Peterson, for 
the first ward; George Park, for the second ; Stephen 

Weed, for the third : William Seym ■, for the fourth, 

and William I'.. Doubleday, for the fifth. The Hoard 
elected the following officers: Daniel S. Dickinson, 
President; Erasmus D. Robinson, Clerk: Joseph S. 
Boswortb, Attorney : Julius Page, Treasurer, and 
Joseph Bartlett, Police Constable and Collector. Five 
Fire Wardens were also appointed : they were: Myron 
Merril, George T. Kay, Levi Dimmock, Cary Mur- 
dock and Isaac Leavenworth. 

A code of law- was adopted, and during the same 
month provision was made for forming two lire com- 
panies. About six hundred dollars was raised ami a 
company organized in the Fall of 1836. It was com 
posed of sixteen persons. A year later a second com- 
pany was formed called "The Juveniles." It is 
worthy of notc> that the village even at that remote 
time made ample provision against the destruction of 



hie and property by lire, a spirit which ha- character 
i/cd its people at every Btage of their advancement to 
the present . 

In the same year that the village was incorporated 
there was begun the construction of the Chenango 
canal, an important waterway completed three years 
later, which connected this citj with the Eric canal at 
I'tica. This course gave the place a tremendous im- 
petus. It virtually transformed it from a great lumber 
camp into a busy metropolis, the depot of supplies for 
a vast tract of territory stretching out on everj side. 
The construction of the Eric railway was begun under 
unfavorable circumstances in 1840 and completed to 
Binghamton in 1848. The enterprising village bounded 
forward with renewed strength at this period, its en 
larged commercial facilities and more evident natural 
advantages combining to bring it into prominent notice. 

The constructs f the railway to Syracuse, another 

lo Albany, and the Delaware and Lackawanna with its 
branches to I'tica and into the great coal fields oi 
Pennsylvania are project- of too recent date to require 
more than passing mention. 

When the City of Binghamton was incorporated in 

1S67 it had attained a population of 11. ' p< 

It was no longer a hamlet, hut a city with beautiful 
streets, magnificent buildings teeming with an enter- 
prising and happy people. The young giant had then 
outstripped every rival, and already gave abundant 
promise of the commanding eminence it ha- now 
gained. The first Mayor was Hon. Abel Bennett, a 
gentlemen whose name is permanently identified with 
the latter history and development of the city. 

Before leaving this period of our narrative it may be 
well to speak of some of the more prominent institu- 
tions of Binghamton. The County Court House was 

built in 1857 by .1. Stuart Wells at a cost of $32, 

Several additions have since been made to it until it has 
become a massive and substantia] structure worth many 
times its original cost. It is surrounded by a beauti- 
ful esplanade and occupies the summit of an eminence 
in the most central and prominent part of the city. 
The architecture is of the composite style. The front 
is a Grecian portico of massive pillars, and it is stir 



BINGHAMTON PAST AND PRESENT. 



mounted by a magnificent dome capped by a majestic 

figure of Justice. The Court House grounds are en- 
closed on three sides by streets and towering business 
blocks. In the rear stands the County Clerk's Office 
and Jail. 

One of the most imposing buildings in this or any 
other city is the State Asylum for the chronic insane. 
It was first designed as an asylum for inebriates by Dr. 
J. Edward Turner, an enthusiastic philanthropist who 
spent the best years of his busy life and a large fortune 
in the consummation of his plan for the cure of dipso- 
mania, h hich 
he regarded 
as a disease. 
The corner 



long, three stories high, in the castellated Gothic style 
with great towers, turrets, butrcsses, and is embattled 
on the top. Surrounded as it is with beautiful lawns, 
adorned with flowers of every variety indiginous to 
this zone, it presents a lovely prospect and is visited 
almost every day in the year by scores of admiring 
sight seers. 

Among other institutions may be mentioned two 
Orphan Asylums — the Susquehanna Valley and St. 
Mary's Homes, the latter a Roman Catholic institution. 
Both are excellently managed. The city contains seven- 
teen public 
schools, a 




,eaker 

linn 

Benjamin F. 

Butler, !In„. John W. Francis. Hon. Edward Everet 
Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson, Rev. Henry W. Bellows, 
John B Lewis, Jr., and Alfred B. Street, Esq. 

The hospital stands on a high plateau in full view of 
the city and i> en\ ironed by about three hundred acres 
of well tilled land. The state has added cottages to 
the original group from time to lime until there is now 
a group of handsome structures capable of accomodat- 
ing fifteen hundred patients. Every provision is made 
for their comfort, the milder cues being given the bene 
lit of out door employment when the weather permits. 
The main structure is three hundred and sixty-five feet 



he •• Annals of Binghamton," 
by .1. B. Wilkinson in 1840, and republished with 
notes and an appendix by Edward K. Clark, Esq., 
in L872. 



BINGHAMTON OF TO DAY. 



It is conceded that 

more pleasing to the e; 
Its streets are regular! 

well paved. There al 
of streets, and the cit \ 



city in the United Slates is 
than the City of Binghamton. 
.id out. wide, well shaded and 

-e than one hundred miles 

singula] ly free from the un- 



/;/ \ 'OIIAj MTO N PAST AMD PRESENT. 






sightly quarters that disfigure so many municipalities. 
It is frequently a subject of remark thai there is nol u 
single disreputable locality within the city bounds, nol 
one quarter where the wayfarer might fear for his life 
or property at any time of the day or night. The 
city's commercial blocks are of almost uniform beauty 
and solidity. Its residence property is modern in the 
main, and nearlj every house has its shrub or flower 
embellished yard. Evidences of thrift, prosperity and 
contentment are seen on every hand. 



COMMERCE AND MANUFACTURE 



tli 



Binghamton to-day has a population of 
an d people, and has doubled in population every de- 
cade since 1850. It is the government seat of Broome 
county, ami is surrounded by a flourishing farming 
Country On every side. Situated 859 feet above tide 

water, drained by two noble rivers, hemmed in by 
gently sloping hills covered by a lovely and diversified 
foliage, it is no wonder that those who once come here 
can never be persuaded to leave again. There is not a 
more healthful nor a more beautiful spot on earth, two 
qualities thai have undoubtedly contributed their share 
to its marvelous advancement. 

Being a large commercial and manufacturing center 
it is not necessary to say that the city's railway facili- 
ties are exceptional. Lines radiate to the North, East, 
South and West, rendering communication easy and 
cheap with all the great markets of the world. The 
New York, Luke Erie & Western, a great trunk line, 
affords means of transportation from the Atlantic- sea 
bord to the limitless West, connecting the city with 
nearly every large city of the country. The Delaware, 
Lackawanna & Western penetrates the Southern coal 
fields and affords a competitive outlet to the West, 
thus assuring the lowest possible rates for shipping. 
This railway also ha- branches to Syracuse, Utica and 
Oswego. The Delaware & Hudson operates a line 
from Binghamton via Albany to Boston, these seven 
outlets giving freighl and passenger facilities enjoyed 
by few inland places on the continent. 

Binehamton is a city of important and varied manu- 



facturing interests. It is one of the largest cigar mak 
inor cities in the world, having at present seventy-four 
factories in operation with an annual producl of more 
than L50, , cigars. < >vcr four thousand per- 
sons are employed in this branch of trade alone, the 
major part of them continuing al work all through the 
business depression of the preceding and proscnl years. 
The quality of cigars twined out is such that they find 
a ready market wherever choice goods are appreciated. 
There i< no city or village between the Atlantic and 
Pacific coasts where Binghamton cigars are not -old. 

The city also takes first rank as a seed depot, in the 
manufacture of chairs, wagons, sleighs, carriage hard- 
ware, tanning, the manufacture of glass, hoes, electri 
eal apparatus, blankets, button.-, scales, boots and 
shoes, clothing, furniture, doors and building materials. 
The annual report of the State Commissioner of Labor 
shows that 12,865 persons are employed, 8,816 of 
whom are males. It is a remarkable fact that the 
majority of Binghamton workingmen own their home-, 
hundreds of pretty cottages along many of the finest 
streets attesting the thrift and prosperity of the labor- 
ing clasps. As a matter of fact, Binghamton may be 
called the city of workingmen. It contains no drones. 
none of that class whose presence often is so blighting, 
the proprietors of large tract- of territory held for 
such increase of value as may follow the enterprise of 
adjacent landlords. 



GOVERNMENTS AND VALUATIONS. 

Until four years ago the city was divided into ten 
wards. According to an act of the Legislature the 
boundry lines were then largel) extended, the city re- 
districted into thirteen wards and these sub-divided 
into thirty-four election districts. Each ward is repre 
sented in tie- Common Council by an Alderman, in the 
Board of County Legislators by one Supervisor. 
These are elected every two years. The Mayor also 
holds office two years. The citj governmcnl further 
consists of a Health Board, a Fire, Police and School 
Boards. Politically the city swings to both extremes 
of the pendulum, it being alternately Republican and 



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BWGHAMTON PAST AND PRESENT. 



Democratic. A Board of Trade was organized in L887, 
and now has about three hundred members. It lias 
been instrumental in securing a number of important 
industries. Its membership embraces nearly every 
prominent business man, and all work with eye single 
to the upbuilding of the town whose collective advance- 
ment means also individ- 
ual well being. 

By reason of its sit 
nation there is no doubt 
that the city is destined 

to become the metro 
polis of that extensive 
fertile territory stretch- 
ing along the Southern 
border of the state from 
New York to Buffalo. 
Its rapid stride forward 
during the last thirty 
years may he taken as 
a sure indication of yet 
greater development to 
come. Its assessed val- 
uation of real estate has 
increased enormously, 
now being more than 

$18, 1,000, which is 

only about one half its 
real valuation. The as 
sessed valuation of per- 
sonal property is about 

$2,500, k making the 

total assessed \ aluation 
of property mure than 
twenty millions. The 
municipal debt is \cr\ 
small, the city having always preferred the pay as you 

go policy to 1 led indebtedness. In Ism:; ii was 

$326,500, carrying an annual interest charge of $10, 
370. The tax rate is L5.39 per thousand of assessed 
valuation. While there are cities that can show a 
smaller tax rate, then- are none in which taxation 
is less burdensome iccount of the low estimat- 




ed valuation placed upon property by the assessors. 
It would he idle to dwell longer upon the many ad- 
vantages presented by the city either as a home or 
place of business. They are manifold and conspicuous 
enough to attract a large influx of population annually. 
Seldom indeed does one voluntarily exchange a home 
once gained here for a 
home elsewhere, and as 
for the loss of an indus- 
try the first has yet to 
he recorded. The 
healthfulness of its loca- 
tion, its superb school 
facilities, its numerous 
ami beautiful churches, 
its spacious and cleanly 
streets, superior water 
system, sewerage, pave- 
ments, and above all, 
its enterprising and hon- 
o rah le business com- 
munity combine to make 
it as nearly an ideal 
place for the enjoyment 
of life as this most fa- 
vored of countries af- 
fords. Several of the 
feat ures already re- 
ferred to will be treated 
in greater detail in what 
follows. Allusion 
should also he made to 
the city's natural en- 
vironment. Beautiful 
hillsides clothed with 
verd u r e, magnificent 
ineand chestnut forests, cultivated valleys and meadow 
inds conduce to it- beauty, healthfulness and pros- 
erin in a degree that few cities can boast. 



STREET RAILWAY SYSTEM. 
»f the institutions of the city of which every 
is justly proud is the Street Railway system. 



Erastus Ross, Preset. *w^ 

J), s. Richards. 1 /' > < Clinton 

Charles Davis, Vic ^^ (!. IT. 0*trandei\ 



The Merchants Bank, 

CAPITAL. $100,000. SURPLUS. 85.000. 

Binghamton, N. Y. 

Directors, • • • • 



1 raStUS ROSS. 


Charles l>;,%i*. 


Allen Barlow. 


<'. <;. Armstrong. 


Clinton 1:..--. 


u . II. \\ llkin 


George Craver. 


G. .1. Babcock. 


.1. Stu ,,i Wei 


Frederic E. Ross. 


.1. s. Corbett. 


B. 11. Nelson. 




1.. -. Ri< bards. 





Ef{asths Hess & Sons, 



1 BANKERS, 

4.4. ' 



F^oss Building, Bingharr)ton, N. Y, 



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safe: deposit vaults. 



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BINGHAMTON PAST AND PRESENT. 



The various lines were operated by horses until 1888, 
since which time they have been gradually improved, 
extended and equipped by electricity until there arc 
twenty-seven miles of track operated by the potent 
fluid. Franchises over all these streets are owned by 
the Binghamton Railway Company, a corporation 
chartered in L892, in which were consolidated the six 
companies originally operating in the city. Its lines 
extend to Ross Park, Bennett Park, the State Hospital, 
the various Cemeteries, the Binghamton Exposition 
grounds and through every principal street and thor- 
oughfare. The most costly rails have been laid, and the 
rolling stock 




-i RONG 
til of the best quality is used on the 



■d streets 
now occu- 
pied, and 'I' 

suburban lines. It i> conceded by those conversant 
with railway construction that the roadbed of the 
Binghamton Railroad Company is without a superior 
in this or anj country. lis promotors have built for 
all time to come. 

The company owns one of the most thoroughly equip- 
ped power plants in the United Stales. It is pleasantly 
and conveniently located on the hank of tin' Chenango 
river not far from the business part of the city, and is 
fitted with every steam and electrical appliance that 
science ha- produced for the -ate and economical oper- 



ation of electric cars. The plant contains a maximum 
capacity of 1,400 horsepower, comprising three Ball 
,\, Wood compound condensing engines, four Edison 
dynamos, latest improved slate hack switch-board, 
ample boiler capacity, lathes, drills, etc, for the con- 
struction and repair of anything that may be desired. 
In (lose proximity to the power house are located com- 
modious car and storage houses. The buildings are of 
brick and rest on a foundation of solid masonry. 
Binghamton was the first city in this state to adopt 
electricity as a motive power for street ears, and is to- 
day one of the foremost in everything that pertains to 

the improve- 
ment of the 
method. The 
K^-~ -" com p a n y 

^T -^. ^ owns eighty 

car-, the most 
of which are 
of recent con- 
struction, and 
t w en ty- five 

C o m p I e t e 

double elect- 
r i c a 1 c a r 
e i| u i pments, 
which will be 
increased a s 
the growth of 

the s)sl em 

and develop- 
ity may require. Through the enter 

prise of the Street Car Company, thousands of 
strangers are brought annually to Binghamton to pic- 
nic at Ross Park, which is a direct benefit to the busi- 
ness interests of the city. The perseverance and sound 
financiering of the management have place. I the affairs 
of the company on a firm financial footing, so that its 
securities are rated among the highest at home and 
abroad. The greater portion of the capital slock of 
the company is owned by citizens of Binghamton who 
are interested in the welfare of the city, assuring mut- 
ual co-operation and assistance in the advancement of 



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STRONG & STRONG, 

BANKERS, 

Strong 81ocK, * Bingheimlon, N. Y. 



Jj Solicit the accounts of Banks, Bankers, Firms and Individuals. 
g Make advances against Collaterals. 

Approved business paper discounted or received as security for loans. 
| Buy and sell U. S. Bonds and Investment securities. 

j Furnish Letters of Credit available in all parts oi the world, and Domestic travelers I 
of Credit in dollars, for use in this and adjacent counti 



0REIGN LwXGIIANGE. 



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Loans 

Money 

on 

Bond and Mortgage. 



. THE . 

BINGHAMTON 

TRUST 

COMPANY, 



Pays 

Interest 

on 

Time Deposits. 



OF BINGHAMTON, N. Y. 

CAPITAL, $400,000. 



Officers: 

CHAR] 1 - I. k\ \i P, p 
II. II. CRARY, \ [i e-Pi 
V I. SCHLAG1 R 

- 1< (DDARD H \\I\I< IN] 

I VCOB WIS] I., i ISHIER. 

W. J. WEI SH, Attorney. 



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1 -J VI K. 

I AX, 
AOMINISTR \ 

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ASSIGNEE. 



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BINGIIAMTON PAST AND PRESENT. 



both the city and street railroad system. The officers 
of the company arc: (i. T. Rogers, President; John 
Evans, First Vice-President; J. B. Landfield, Second 
Vice-President; ('. O. Root, Secretary; John B. 
Rogers, Treasurer ; J. P. E. ('lark. General Manager. 
ruder the energetic management of these gentlemen 
the roads have become prosperous and powerful. To 
the Vice Presidents, Messrs. Evans and Landfield, is 
<lue"ilie credit of coming forward with much needed 
assistance at a critical period in the financial history of 
is they materially assisted in 



in the management of their department : also by J. P. 
E. Clark, the General Manager, who by his untiring 
efforts and desire to meet the wishes and demands of 
the traveling public has surrounded himself with a 
competent and obliging corps of employes, and made 
this one of the best managed street railway systems in 
the country, and one of the most prosperous institu- 
tions in the city. As a result of careful and prudent 
management and the effort made to afford the public 
efficient service, the Bingham ton Railroad Company 
enjoy an extensive patronage. In addition to the reg- 
ular daily 




ham ton in the 
foremost 
rank of street 
c a r c i t i e s. 
The most en- 
couraging 



company through its long series of 
complications, bringing one by one the various lines of 
the city into the final consolidation, and giving to Bing- 
liamton its present efficient and complete street railway 
system. The efforts of the President are the more 
praiseworthy when it is taken into consideration that 
he was in the main dependent upon foreign capital, 
and that he succeeded in enlisting about three-quarters 
of a million dollars of New York capital in the project. 
Mr. Rogers has been ably assisted in directing the at' 
fairs of the company by J. l'>. Rogers, Treasurer, and 
<'. ( ). Root, Secretary, who have shown marked ability 



feature to the investors in this enterprise is the fact 
that the business is constantly increasing each year. 



THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. 

The immunity which the city has long enjoyed from 
costly conflagrations is owing in great measure to the 
efficiency of its Fire Department. It is a volunteer 
department and is distributed so that it covers ade- 
quately not only the closely settled business and resi- 
dence quarters but the remotest suburb as well. The 
sharp rivalry which exists among the various com- 



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H Phelps Bank Building, Binghamton, N. Y. 

§ CAPITAL, $100,000. $$ SURPLUS, $40,000. K 



\V. MAN III; 



OFFICERS. 

WEED. Vlce-FreBl<lent. AKTHI I! GRI1 I 



DIRECTORS. 

A TM1..1 !•, Robi W. Manii l: 



Jj I wii , B. Weed i w is a. ihhis. 

G, , \ Kent. Arthur Griki-in. 

M S. J. HlRSCHMANN. [AMES W. MANIER. Al.nNZO C. Ma WS. ►< 

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The Security Mutual Life Association, 

Commenced Business January hi, 1887. 

HOME OFFICE, 

Binghamton, N. Y. ** $8 Park Row, Potter Building. 

On the First of January, 1394, this Association stood as follows, to wit : 

Insurance in Force, - - $10,745,300.00 
Accumulated Xet Assets Over 250,000.00 

Matured Death Claims, - - Xonc 

THE INSURANCE WRITTEN IN 1893 EXCEEDED THAT WRITTEN IN 1892 by 54 per cent, and was in amount S4.894.300. 00. 



, .1 nation is doing hm «■ in th following States: Xetc Yorh Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, 

>higan,Mh ta, North Dakota, Colorado, California, Mi II I Txrg r, Aorth 



Th 
Ohio, Mich 
Carolina, Alabama and District of Columbi 



Reliable Agents and Managers Wanted. 

>^ss, CHAS. M. TURNER, 



Secretary and Gerjeral Manager, 

Binghamton, N. v. 



I'.l.Xi, EAMTON PAST AND PRESENT. 



panics to respond firsl to alarms of fire assures such an 
alerl and vigorous service that large losses have been 
comparatively rare, there not being on record a single 
instance of sweeping disaster such as have 1 tin 1 waste 
extensive tracts of territory in less ably protected 
cities. This gives property owners the benefit of the 
lowest possible terms that underwriters can make in 
the assumption of fire risks. 

The department's history Mould not he complete 
without further reference to the formation of the 
pioneer companies, now more than sixty years ago. 
Provision for the organization of two hook and ladder 



• o m p a nics 



1830. In August of the same year another body of 
young men petitioned the trustees for permission to 
form a second company to be known as '-The Juvenile 
Fire Company." These young men were nearly all 
under twenty years of age, but there is documentary 
evidence to show that they were not wanting in time of 
need. Their names were Chas. L. Robinson, James 
H. Halstead, Evans M. Johnson, John II. Park, 
Albert C. Morgan, Russell 15. Tripp, ('has. Rogers, 
Jacob Morris, Jr., John McNeil, Thomas G. Halstead, 
Frederick A. Morgan, Chas. Tupper, Chas. Cole, 
William Castle, George Dyer and William Abbott. 

Roth of these 




lire engine. About the same time a 
petition signed by sixteen persons was presented before 
the village trustees praying that they be formed into 
a fire company. The signers of this petition became 
the members of the pioneer tire brigade. They were 

'he founders of a number of the st prominent 

families of the city as the following names will attest : 
William II. Pratt, Henry M. Collier. James Eldredge, 
George Congdon, James Smead, A. W. Martin, Peter 
Clew, l.-,aae Bartlett, Caleb Roberts, .lames Bigler, 
William Bigler, John Schofield, [saac Bishop, Thomas 
Johnson, .1. 1'. Sutton and I >. Horton. 

This, be it remembered, was in the earlier part of 



ly a half 
ntury ago. 
The form- 
ion of the 
unorganized volunteer bodies of that early day into two 
officered companies took place in the latter part of 
L836. They were Phoenix Company, No. 1. and Cat- 
aract Company, No. •_'. Their formen were ('has. L. 
Robinson and Waring S. Weed, respectively. On 
July 21, L837, there took place an election of officers 
tor Phoenix company which resulted in the choice of 
M. S. Lewis as foreman: Abram DeWitt, Assistant 
Foreman ; I.. Sawtell, Second Assistant Forman ; Vin- 
cent Graves, Secretary, and llolliert Eldredge, Treas- 
urer. The torch bearers, then apparently an import- 
ant feature of tire and parade service, were Maneo C. 
Dickinson, Erastus Campbell and Phillip Harvey. 



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The signal of the company was carried by J. Farrell. 
In the absence of an engine house Phoenix company 
made its headquarters in Judge Robinson's barn on 
Washington street, while Cataracts kept their appar- 
tus in a barn mi Court street not far from the place 
where E. ('. Delavan's hat store now stands. The last 
named company passed out of existence many years 
ago, but Phoenix siill lives in Mechanics Hose Com 
pany, No. »i. 

The city now contains six hose companies, one chem- 
ical engine company, two steamer companies and one 
hook a in 




my. Its apparatus was of the most 
primitive character, consisting merely of a wagon 
with poles and hook- along the side upon which were 
suspended buckets for carrying water. 

In the Summer of [858 it was resolved to form 
another tire company, the village having outgrown its 
old time service. Accordingly a portion of Fountain 
Bucket company withdrew from the parent body and 
formed what was for -cine years known as Lawyer 
I lose company, a name subsequently changed to 
Crystal Hose company, No. 1. which name it still 
bears. Mechanics, Fountains and Crystals are there- 



fore the three oldest companies in the department 
The city now contains the following organizatior 
Crystal Hose Co., No.l, Alert Hose Co., No. 2, Pre 
tection Hose Co., No. 3, Fountain Chemical Co., 

4, Independent Hose Co., No. 5, Mechanics Hose Co., 
No. 0, Rockbottom Hose Co., No. 7, Excelsior Hook 
& Ladder Co., No. 1. 

The department is subject to the control of a Board 
of Commissioners composed of four persons. It is ap- 
pointed and is supposed to be non-partisan. The 
Board at present is composed of Wm. F. Lent/, A. 

D. Fancher. 
Joseph Gil- 
bert and .1. 
W. Lyon. 
Many of the 
best known 
citizens of 
Binghamton 
have offieiat- 
ed as chief 
engineers of 
the depart- 
m e n t. A 
list of them 
m a y n o t 
prove unin- 
teresting. 
They are .1. 
K. R u g g, 
H. M. Col- 
lier, Levi Dimmock, Levi Rexford, Geo. Bartlett, 
Tracy R. Morgan, Jacob Morris, F. A. Morgan, 
Abram DeWitt, Wm. S. Lawyer, E. R. Campbell, 
Edward Unbelts, II. (i. Blanding, S. B. Drass, James 
W. Lyon. William F. Lentz, Albert Lockwood, 
Jerome DeWitt, F. W. Lovelace, Dan S. Burr, Loring 

5. Harding, John Morrisey, Frank Stewart. Fred 
Welch, Frank B. Newell, I. W. Butler and Chas. 
Hogg. The worth and standing of these gentlemen is 
an index of the regard in which connection with the 
lire service in this city is held. There is also an Ex- 
empt Firemen's Association connected with the de- 



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BINGHAMTON PAST AND PRESENT. 



partment. The active .service embraces not less than 
six hundred members, and its apparatus is of the best 
that can be obtained. Crystal Hose Co., No. 1, is 
equipped with a hose wagon and team ; Alerts have a 
hose cuii and team: Protections the same ; Fountains 
possess a chemical engine of 60 gallon capacity: Inde- 
pendents a wagon and single horse; Mechanics the 
same: Rockbottoms a cart and team. Excelsior 
Hook & Ladder Co. recently purchased a Hayes truck 
and extension ladder and team with which excellent 
service has been done on several occasions. The 
-tcamcrs are of the Sillshy and La France makes and 
are called respectively "The City of Binghamton," 
and ■• Bennett," the latter in 
honor id' Hon. Abel Bennett, 
the < i t \ \- first Mayor. 

By an act of the Legis- 
lature adopted March 1st of 
the presenl year, the depart- 
ment officers are made per- 
manent. They are as fol- 
lows: ('ha-. N. Hogg, Chief 
Engineer : dames Eldredge, 
First Assistant; Albert Lyon, 
Second Assistant : Timothy 
d. McNamara, Fire Marshall. 
There is also a Fireman's 
Board consisting of the chief 
and his assistants, a secretary 

, , „ BUNDT MANUKACTl 

and treasurer and the tore- 
man of each company. Its chief office is the guardian- 
ship of a fund made up by the various underwriters 
doing tire insurance business in this state, and is for 
the benefit of indigent firemen. 

The lire alarm system is the latest improved Game- 
well. It is proposed to buy another alarm bell which 
will be bung in a tower on the proposed new central 
tire station. 

The department also owns a lot in Spring Forest 
cemetery for the repose of such deceased members as 
may not have friend- to take charge of them. It con 
tain- a handsome granite monument, surmounted by a 
marble figure symbolical of tire department work. 




Three years ago Mr. John B. Simpson presented the 
department with a gold medal to be given on each 
annual parade day to the member of the department 
who, during the year, had performed the most heroic 
act. At the last annual parade it was given for the 
first time to Mr. Ccorge Allen, of Mechanics Hose 
Company, for rescuing the lleim family from the 
O'Neil block on Washington street. There were 
several others credited with brave performances, but 
Mr. Allen's was adjudged most deserving of the prize. 

( hcasionally there is talk of changing the volunteer 
to a paid department. It does not, however, strike the 
public favorably, as the present system is much the 
hj^, more economical, and on the 
score of efficiency it is un- 
surpassed. 



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A CITY OF CHURCHES. 

Binghamton contains many 
beautiful edifices dedicated to 
worship of the Supreme 
Being, and the various de- 
nominations and creeds have 
ever worked together in har- 
mony. There are thirty two 
churches, many of which 
ji represent the investment of 
large sums of money. Their 
influence is manifest in the 
ty and morality that pervade social circles. 
History gives to the Baptist denomination the honor 
of seniority in the establishment of a local place of wor- 
ship. A Baptist clergyman named Howe settled in 
Chenango Point about the year 1790 and conducted re- 
ligious service in a desultory way for about four years 
near the foot of Mount Prospect. He was succeeded by 
FMer Fiske, but the society continued to decrease in 
number until 1800 when it passed out of existence. 
About the year 1798 a Dutch Reformed minister 
named Manly established a society in the young settle 
men). It flourished tor a few years then united with 
a little Presbyterian circle, bill prosperity did not im 



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B1NGHAMT0N PAST AND PRESENT. 



mediately follow. In the language of the early hist- It was called St. Ann's church and was dissolved in 
orian : "As the population increased, morals degen- L816, a new society being organized in its stead with 
erated. Hunting, with other idle and dissolute means Hon. Tracy Robinson, chairman. The first edifice 



was dedicated by Bishop Hobart on November 20, 
L818, and was called Christ church. This building 
was sold to the Methodists in 1822 and a new one 
erected. It stood on the site of Christ church at the 
•oiner of Washington and Henry streets, and gave 
Society became divided into distinct place to the present edifice in 1854. The first wardens 

were S a ro- 



of passing the Sabbath became prevalent. Intem- 
perance crept in and prevailed the more when men 
could meet together in considerable numbers. And as 
men became more numerous they became more selfish, 
the bitter fruits of which became more and more ap- 
parent and felt 
classes; trill- . 
ing distinct- 
ions were 
made among 
its mem- 
bers calcu- 
lated only to 
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and hatred 
of others. 
•flic charm 
of fellow- 
feeling that 
hound them 
formerly to- 
gether was 
now brok- 
en. •• If the 
lament of 
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icler i> understood it means thai 
tonians did not grow in grace as il 
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y grew in numbers, chu 

ighter their moral the place. 

condition grew darker until about the close of the sail, a siste 

eighteenth century when the struggling christian Thomas E\ 

society of something like a dozen souls was no more. cosl origina 




till Hi?! 5 : 

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ground still connect 
Inch repose some of the eailii 
The lirst person interred was Mrs. Bird 
of Mrs. John A. Collier and of Mrs. 
ns. The present Episcopal church edifice 
ly about $35,000, but the property is now 



PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL. worth more than four times thai sum. 

The next church organization was of the Protestanl three Protestant Episcopal chnrches 

Episcopal denomination, and was founded on the 19th Christ's, Trinity and the Good Sheph 

of September, 1810, the Rev. Daniel Nash, chairman, al I 1,000 communicants. 



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B1NGHAMT0N PAST AND PRESENT. 



PRESBYTERIAN. 

The Presbyterian church society experienced a re- 
vival about the year 1S17 under the ministration of a 
zealous christian gentleman named Niles who came 
here from New Lebanon. An organization of the 
church was effected in that year by the Rev. Ebenezer 
Kingsbury, of Harford, l'a., and Rev. Joseph Wood, 
of Windsor, N. Y. The society comprised about 
twenty members, of whom only three were men, the 
remaining seventeen being ladies. The men were : 
Jesse Hinds, Jonathon Ogden and John McKinney. 




church flourished healthily 
from its inception, and soon became "an influential and 
thoroughly self sustaining body. It became too large 
for tin- enfeebled pastor about 1827 whereupon the 
Rev. Peter Lockwood was '-ailed to assisl him. Mr. 
Niles passed away in L828 and was succeeded by Mr. 
iod, who continued in charge until L833. 
There was no regular pastor then [for about three 
years when a call was extended to Rev. John A. Nash, 
and lie was succeeded in 1838 by Rev. David D. 
Gregory. The first Presbyterian church edifice was 
dedicated in 1819 or 1820 on the site of the present 



church on Chenango street. The form of worship un- 
til that time had been the Dutch Reformed, a closely 
allied creed. At a meeting in June, 1820, it was 
voted to adopt the Directory of the Presbyterian 
church, and this was done in April of the year fol- 
lowing. 

The society outgrew its home, and in January, 1860, 
it was voted to build a new church. It was of brick 
and was capable of seating 1,200 persons. Scarcely 
was it completed in 1862 when it caught tire and was 
destroyed, to be replaced by the magnificent edifice 

n o w stand- 
i ng on the 
beautiful old 
site on Chen- 
ango street. 
Its pastor 
is the Rev. 
Dr. Nichols, 
whose salary 
is $6,000, is 
t h e largest 
paid to any 
clergy man 
in the city. 
The church 
society num- 
bers many of 
:^ the wealth- 
iest families 
in Bingham- 
it present about r>,ou<> Presbyterians in 
the city allied with seven churches, the First. North, 
West. Ross Memorial, Floral Avenue, Broad Avenue 
ami Emanuel. 

METHODIST EPISCOPAI,. 

In 1817 the first Methodist Episcopal church was or- 
ganized by the Rev. Ebenezer Doolittle, consisting at 
first merely of a class, visited more or less regularly 
by circuit preachers. In L832 Binghamton was made 
a separate charge and became what was called a 
••station,"' the village itself being the center of a cir- 
cle having a radius of some eight or ten miles. The 



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church was located on Henry street 
was formed in l v "'l as an auxil 
street church, but il grew so rapidly tha 
ten years it outnumbered the parent 
place of worship ' 
Carroll streets. Tl 



BINGHAMTON PAST AND PRESENT. 
A 



second society 
to the Henry 

in less than 
.eiety. Its 
as at the corner of Court and 
s house was originally built 



E. church \vh< 



IkmU of dissenters from the M 
themselves •• 1' rot es- 
tant Methodists.'" but 
who failing to succeed 
in their project of 
founding a new church 
sold out to the offshoot 
from the Henry street 
society. 

In 1865, the centen- 
ary year of the M. E. 
church in this country, 
the two Methodist so- 
cieties united, forming 
what was called the 
" Methodist Church of 
Bi n gh am t on," with 
Rev. D. \V. Bristol as 
pastor. The joinl so 
ciety numbered aboul 
four hundred members. 
Mr. Bristol was an en- 
ergetic pastor, and im- 
mediately set about to 
provide his flock with 
a suitable place of wor- 
ship, the resull of his 
labor being the erect 
ion, within three j ears 

after the beginning of his pastorate, of the splendid 
edifice now standing at the corner of Court and Cen 
lenary streets and called Centenary Church. This 
edifice cost $65,000, and is now valued at $150,000. 

The Methodisl denomination is one of the strongest 
in point of membership and number of churches in the 
city. It possesses eighl societies as follows : the Cen 
tenary, the Tabernacle, High Street, Chenango Slreet, 



Clinton Street, Free Methodist, Zion and St. Paul's, 
the last two named being African. 

BAPTIST. 

The Baptists instituted a feeble church society some 

and years prior to the close of the last century, but it 

by a passed away in a very brief time. The present church 

died was organized in 1829, following a revival under the 

direction of an itiner- 




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Jacob Knapp 

OUS accession 

L869 when it 

suitable to its needs than 

were generously given, 



ate preacher named 
Frederick, who was 
also for a time pastor 
of a Baptist church at 
Great Bend, Pa. As 
seemed to be the rule 
i n those days the 
women largely outnum- 
bred the men in relig- 
ious work, the first 
Baptist society being 
composed of but four 
men and twenty of the 
weaker sex. John 
Congdon, Jr. and Reu- 
ben Starkweather were 
appointed deacons and 
held office for many 
years. Elder Freder- 
ick gave satisfactory 
service and was called 
to the pulpit of the 
young church in 1831. 
Mr. Frederic was suc- 
ceeded by Flders Cor- 
win and Henry Rob- 
ertson. In L837 a 
us revival spread over this part of the 
the ministration of an evangelist named 
and the Baptisl church received numer- 
It continued to grow rapidly until 
was resolved to erect a building more 
he old edifice. Subscriptions 
ind ground was broken on 



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B1NGEAMT0N PAST AND PRESENT. 



church in the city. It was completed in 1871 and 
dedicated in 1872 (March 5.) The building was 
erected on Chenango streel and was a fine example of 
Romanesque architecture, eosting $78,000. Its des- 
truction by fire in the winter of 1893, and the immedi- 
ate erection of the presenl beautiful structure are 
matters of public knowledge. In addition to the First 
church there are three Baptist churches in the city. 
They are the Memorial, 
the Conklin Avenue and 
Park A v en ue churches. 
The Baptist denomination is 
one of the most progressn e 
in the city. 

ROMAS CATHOLIC. 

Roman Catholicism es- 
tablished itself in Bingham- 
ton in Is.'ls. Some work 
was done anterior to that 
time, hut it was not until 
then that a house of wor- 
ship was formally dedicat- 
ed. It was situated on Le- 
roy street on the site now 
occupied by St. Patrick's 
church. The Right Rever- 
end Bishop Hughes offici- 
ated at the dedicatory ser- 
v i c e. a n d occasionally 
thereafter until 1^17. when 
the late Rev. -lames F. 
Ilouiigaii was installed as 

pastor, and continued in the 

ll. A. GOFF a 
service until his death near- 
ly half a century after. The present edifice was buill 
in 1869 and cost $125,000. There are now two Cath 
olic churches in the city St. Patrick's, presided over 
by Rev. John T. McDonald, and St. Mary's, under 
the pastorate of Rev. Father Hughes. The Catholics 
also have a convent, orphan's home and parochial 
school, and own city property valued at over half a mil 
lion dollars. St. Mary's parish is building a line and 
costlj church edifice at tin- corner of Court and Fayette 



ill he finished before the close of the 
are not less than 8,000 Catholics in 



streets. It 
year. There 

the city. 

CONGREGATIONAL. 

This denomination, an offshoot from the Presbyter- 
ian church, was organized in 1836 with hut eighteen 
members. Formal institution over, the little society 
called Rev. John Starkweather to the pulpit and built 
a house the succeeding year. 
The Congregationalists now 
a v e t w o churches — the 
First at the corner of Front 
and Main streets, the other, 
Plymouth church, on Lydia 
street. The societies num- 
r several thousand per- 




sons. 

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ER DENOMINATIONS. 

Fniversalists first 

red in local history in 

They have recently 

a handsome little 

i on Exchange street 

i hun- 



and number about 
died people. 

The Christians have two 
place- of worship, the 
Fm a nue 1 church of the 
Evangelical Association 
one, the Lutherans one, 

and there are besides two 
Young Men's Christian As- 
sociations, a Rescue Mis- 

sion and a Salvation Army, 
t may be said that the spiritual needs of 

several denomi- 

rs, denoting a 
spiritual vision. 



( hi the whole 

the city are amply provided for. The 
nations frequently interchange past' 
commendible liberality and breadth of 



SUPERB SCHOOL PRIVILEGES. 

The writer who sang -'of the glory that was Greece 
and the grandeur that was Rome" sang of Athenian 






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heroism, spartan courage and the Roman's prowess in 
arms. The glory and the grandeur of ancient races 
were their conquests in battle. The glory and the 
grandeur of civilized modern people are their schools 
— those lofty temples in which the young idea is taught 
to shoot aright. Of these Bingham ton has many and 
the best. Nearly $100,000 is appropriated annually 
for the supporl of the local public schools. They are 
in truth the glory and grand- 
eur of the city, contribut- 
ing in a very sensible de- 
gree to its intelligent and 
upright citizenship. 

The power to establish 
and maintain free graded 
schools was conferred upon 
the city by an act of the Leg- 
islature in 1861. The sys- 
tem was immediately put in 
operation under the super- 
vision of David II. Crutten- 
den. an experienced teacher 
of very pronounced ability. 
Mr. ('rut tenden resigned in 
1 s t',4 and was succeeded by 
II. 'I'. Funnell, who whs in 
t urn succeeded by Prof. 
Geo. Jackson, next follow- 
ing Prof. Norman I*'. 
Wright. Geo. L. Farnham, 
Esq., and M. W. Scott, the 



B1NGI1AMTON PAST AND PRESENT. 

wesa in the foil, 



figures must be interesting and signifi- 
cant : total school registration in 1880 was 2,687 
pupils : number of teachers employed, 58. In 1890, 
the total registration was 4,321, a gain of 60.81 per 
cent: number of teachers employed, 121. In 1893, 
thi> total registration of pupils was 5,795, a gain of 



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last named i 
the office. 1 
furnished th< 
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■of. Far 

plan- f, 
school, 




590 : number of teachers em- 

llment during the last school 

year was as follows : 

1st Grade.. 1, 785 7th Grade... ^29 

znd Grade.. 71S 8th Grade... 281 

jrd 1 trade. . 11I1 < rrade. . . 197 

4th Grade.. 1167 10th Grade.. 108 
5th Grade.. 470 1 Ith Grade. . 61 
6th Grade.. 429 12th Grade.. 42 
About $12,000.00 has 
been expended during the last 
y ea r for a site and new 
school building at Fairview, 
and a site has been purchased 
on Jarvis street, upon which 
it is proposed to erect a suit- 
able school building at once. 
The policy of the Board of 
Education has been not to 
erect new buildings faster 

total amount received during 
the year was sln-_\ t:',i' 38 : 
expended. $101,817.44. The 



tv owns fifteen 


schools val- 


■d as follows : 




'"dings 


$254,200.00 

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orator) al 1 1 ■ ^_l 1 j si 1 1 20,000.00 

Cit) school library (8,000 

vols.) 10.925.co 



■ted iii 1872 at 



cost of $100,000. Sin,-,, thai time there have been 
built many magnificenl ward schools in which there are 
red an annual average attendance of nearly 
6,000 pupils, presided over by 143 teachers, not in- 
cluding many special instructors in music, painting, 
drawing, etc. 

A.8 nothing more unerringly indicates municipal 
growth than the raii<> of increase in school attendan :e, 



:nc's STORE. Total valueo) scl 1 pro 

pert) *355.l 2 5 "O 

There are also a number of private schools, notably 
ic Lady .lane Grey school for misses, and St. Joseph's 
cademy, a. Catholic institution established in L862 
i,| conducted by the Sisters of St. Joseph. Two 
immercial colleges afford facilites for obtaining a 
,e said, therefore, abso- 
that Binghamton is su- 



bus 


Ill 


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education. It ms 


hit. 


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per 


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[uipped to direct t 


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appealing with sp< 



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Manufacturers and Contractors of 



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Steam and Hot Water Warming L***: 
1 and Ventilating Apparatus. 




Sole Manufacturers of the Celebrated 



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Oteam and Hot Water Do 



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OFFICE AND FACTORY 



Corner State and Henry Streets, Binghamton, N. Y. 



BINGHAMTON /'AST AND PRESENT. 



children to educate. It is a fact that many well-to-do 
families have removed to this city with no other pur- 
pose in view than to surround their children with good 
social influences and to give them the advantage of 
superior school facilities. The city's intellectual and 
moral being are further nourished by a University Ex- 
tension Center well supported. 



The physical department conducts classes in physical 
culture, covering Delsarte work, etc. Educational 
classes designed to meet the needs of all young women, 
teaching sewing, cooking, English literature, etc., a 
well selected library, luncheon rooms for free use of 
girls, lectures, musicales and socials are among the 
prominent features. 



CHRISTIAN ASSOCIA- 
TIONS. 




NEWSPAPERS. 



The Young Men's Christ- 
ian Association, founded in 
1*5:.', occupies spacious 
looms on Court street and 
sustain a free reading room 
containing the best literary 
journals and magazines of 
the day. A gymnasium 
under the direction of a 
professional instructor. Bi- 
hle study, educational 
classes and a boys' depart- 
ment, are features. •• The 
Lib r a rv Association of 
Binghamton," by far the 
largest circulating library 
in this section of the state, 
is sheltered there. Con- 
nected with this Associa 
t ion is a Young Ladies" 
Auxiliary. 

The Railroad V. M. C. 
A. was organized in 1888, 
and is composed of a large 

and intelligent membership, employed on or about 
railroads. It maintains bath, wash rooms, reading 
rooms and library. The railroads contribute $1,200 a 
year to ii> support, and the balance is supplied by an- 
nual membership dues of $2.00. A tine property on 
Lewis street i- owned i,\ the association. 

The ^ oung Women's ( Jhristian Association is a flour 
isbing institution, conducted by and for young women. 




(ONOItKOATIoN AI. CHURCH 



Mr. Chauncy Morgan 
was the first person to "fill 
a long felt want " in 
Broome county. He found- 
ed the Broom,. County 
Patriot some time in 1811. 
A journal called the Ameri- 
can Farmer was circulated 
in Binghamton prior to that 
date, but it was printed in 
Old Chenango and Owego, 
at the former place by 
Daniel Cruger, and at the 
latter by Stephen Mack, 
who afterwards became 
judge of the county. The 
Patriot experienced the us- 
ual unhappy vicissitudes of 
journalism in p r im i t i v e 
communities, success^ ely 
passing into the possession 
of Reuben S. Close and Dr. 
Ely. and ultimately into 
the hands of Dr. Robinson. 
He changed its name to the 
/'/in nix and issued it in an enlarged and improved form. 
The enterprising editor continued at the helm until 
IMs, in the meantime associating with himself as part- 
ner the gifted Major Augustus Morgan. In 1818 he 
sold his interest to Anson M. Howard. 

During the same year a rival paper was started by 
Abraham Burrill called the Republican-Herald. It 
espoused the and Clinton side of the political question 



A. W. Reynolds, # =,\RertiTEeT. 



Rooms 15 and 16 
Hagaman 
Building. 




I! <■: 
ling. 



also. CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. 



Mills. 37 and 39 Wall Street 



Bar Room, Store and Office Fixtures Built to Order. Designs Furnished. 



TELEPHONE. 



D. OSTROM, 



'-•-, ... ;• .-• ..-.. ■ - ■ 





MANUFACTURER OF THE CELEBRATED 






m TROPHY 



{',:.■ :■-■■:■ ■■■:'} '. \. ^$r<'S^<^^^^^S^8<i.&%,9 

CIGARS. 

The Walt. Whitman still holds good its reputation of being one of the 
best 10c. Cigars manufactured in Binghamton. 

$S- The TROPHY, my leading 5c. Goods, recently placed upon the 
market, is pronounced by the smoking public to be a genuine 10c smoke 
for Five Cents. 

When you \A/amt to Smoke, 
Try these Brands. 



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BINGHAMTON PAST AND PRESENT. 



of that day, an acrimonious controversy immediately 
following which endured about two years. Mr. Burrill 
lost some money in his venture and sold out to Doro- 
phus Abbey. He was not more successful than his 
predecessor, the paper changing hands several times 
during the following few years. Mr. Abbey became 
involved with a number of Canadian patriots in 1839 
and was hanged at Kingston. Both the Phcenir and 
the Republican-Herald failed before 1825. 

In 1823 Major Morgan purchased a new out lit of 
type, press, etc., and began the publication of the 
Broom* County Republican, a journal which is still 
issued as the 



was founded in 1 
became a weekly, 
Broorm Republic 
discontinuei" 
Republican 



i-J by C. 1*. Cook. It successively 

nd after its union in 1853 with the 

/, a daily. In 1853 its name was 

t being known thereafter as the Daily 

Five years prior to this time the 



Evening Express had been issued from the same office. 
William Stuart. Esq., published the consolidated 
journals as the Daily and Broom, Republican until 
1864, when they passed into the hands of Carl Bros, & 
Taylor. In 1867 Messrs. Malctte & Reid became pro- 
prietors of the daily and weekly, and the journals 
are now published by the Binghamton Publishing Com- 
pany. Other 




Morgan sold out to Thomas Collier. The paper changed 
hands not less than eight times during the next twenty 
years. In lsfs while under the ownership of Messrs. 
Stuart & Evans, a daily called the Iris was issued, but 
the name was soon changed to the Republican. 

A little journal called the Broorm County Courier 
was started in 1831 by .1. K. Orton and was success 
fully conducted as an administration organ until ls:;7 
when it was sold to Me>~rs. Sheldon and Marble. The 
usual lips ami downs followed. The paper was discon- 
tinued for a time after being burned out in 1838. It 
was the parent of the present Binghamton Democrat. 

A literary semi monthly periodical railed the Iris 



K VIEW. 
Van Valkenberg. Both 
The Binghamton Dm 
the lineal descendant of the Broome County Courier. 
It changed its name and ownership several times before 
1847 when it became the Binghamton Courier, and 
was published by .!. L. Burtis. He sold out to J. T. 
Brodt, and he to Hon. John K. Dickinson in ls.V.i, 
after which it was published as the Democrat. In 
L855 it was sold to \V. S. Lawyer in part, and two 
years later Messrs. Lawyer & Adams assumed full 
proprietorship. Mr. Adams died in 1860, and Geo. 
Bartletl became its editor until the breaking out of the 
rebellion. Hallam Eldredge succeeding him. In 1^71 



LLOYD & 6ARDINER ^ ,v 

^o ^" Confectioners 



OF BINGHAMTQN. 



J 



OBBERS 0F 6RA6KERS 9 (9I6ARS 



MANUFACTURERS OF ** PROPRIETORS OF THE 

CANDY SPECIALTIES, tt "SURE THING" COUGH DROPS. 



Stock Complete, Quality First Class. 

215 STATE STREET, Opposite Armory. 



TRADE MARK 
"WILD ROSE.' 



WILKINSON & EASTWOOD, 



Factory, 

Wall and Water 

Streets. 




BINGHAM TON, 
NEW YORK. 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



ANTIQUE ARD F/INGY eH/IIRS. 



B1N0HAMT0H PAST AND PRESENT. 



William S. and Geo. L. Lawyer became owners of the 
daily and weekly editions, and are still in the harness. 

A daily called the Binghamton Times was estab- 
lished by C. l'>. Gould in 1863 and placed under the 
energetic editorial management of Edward K. Clark, 
Esq. There were already two dailies in the field, the 
resull being a loss of several thousands of dollars dur- 
ing its career of less than two years. It was discon- 
tinued in August, 1864. The Tim.es was revived as a 
weekly in L871, chaDged into a daily under the manage- 



ment of Messrs. Purdy and ( 
into the Rep- 



ind then merged 1 



former being business manager, and the latter manag- 
ing editor of the Republican, in September of the year 
of its birth. These gentlemen brought energy and ex- 
perience into the tottering concern, and succeeded, 
after nearly a year of unremitting labor, in placing it 
upon a paying basis. It was enlarged from time to 
time, a prosperous weekly was established and the 
papers to-day are two of the most influential in the 
city. Mr. Turner disposed of the greater part of his 
interest to his partner and others in August, 1 S 1 1 ; ; , the 
veiling Herald Co., then being made a corporate 

concern. 




Th 


e city 


also 


.as had 


severs 


1 pro- 


hibition and 


trade 


papers, 


and n 


»w con- 


tains 


in ad- 


dition 


to the 


dailies 


nien- 


tionci 


w i t b 


their 


attend- 


ant \ 


eeklys, 


a S a 


t u rday 


and a 


Sunday 


journ 


d. The 


form. 


r, the 


Call, was 


found 


,1 by 


J. W 


Hagar 


an d 


E. 11. 


V. V. 


togers, 



In-other until his death six years ago. 
quentlj purchased of Mrs. Carl by Gi 
whom it is published at present. 

The Binghamton Evening Herald, the fourth of the 
quartette of existing local dailies, was founded in Feb- 
ruary, L889, by Messrs. Bogerl and Briggs, the latter 
an Elmira gentleman of considerable newspaper experi- 
ence. It proved to lie an unprofitable enterprise and 
was sold to II. A. Stanley and ('has. II. Turner, the 



Freeman, and is at present p 

Esq., and Arthur W. Dibble. The Messag, .Sunday! 
was founded by < ). J. Coughlin, about a year ago. 
Both are newsy and apparently prosperous. 



CiTY m WATKK WORKS. 

The city is pecularily fortunate in the possession of 

i of the most valuable water systems iii the country 

— a system so ably managed and so profitable that no 
COSl is entailed on the tax payers by the annual exten- 



MORGAN & CARROLL. 

••GENERAL- • 

Instance and Real Estate. 



GENERAL •• | J(J 



, Manufacturer of , . 



Only the Best Companies Represented. 
(»/■ AMERICA. 
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H ME OF NEW YORK 

^ NORTHERN OF LOND 
^| CONNECTICUT OF HARTFORD. 
Em WESTCHESTER Of NEW YORK. 
Em \ , ICARA OF NEW YORK. 
EE H (LUAMSBl GH • IT\ < '/ BROOKL I \ r . 
£" FIDELITY AND CASUAL TY CO.. XI W YORK. 



Pine Cigars 



ROOMS 18 and 19 WESTCOTT BLOCK, 

120 STATE ST., BINGHAMTON, N. Y. 



Bayless Pulp and Paper Qompany, 



Biriglioipton, \. Y.. U. S. A. 



Manufacturers of Superior 

Pure Fibre, Double Glazed, Water Proof 

Express Wrapping Papers. 



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B1NGHAMT0N PAST AND PRESENT. 



sion of mains into remote and newly peopled districts. 
Three tilings are essential to the health and happiness 
of a community good water, good sewers and good 
streets, by no means the least of these being good 
water cheaply and plentifully provided. This Bing- 
hamton lias. Statistics from many places show that 
the cost of water for domestic and other purposes is 
lower in Binghamton than in any other native city of 
equal size, and less than half the cost of the commodity 
in many cities w 
or cor]> ora- 
tions. Indeed, 
t h e cost for 
family use is so 
small that it can 
scarcely be re- 
garded as a ser- 
ious item of ex- 
pense. 

The Bing- 
hamton water 
works system 
was established 
by an act of the 
Legislature in 
May, 1867, and 
placed under 
the control of 
ti \ e commis- 
sioners. Gen. 
Edward F. 
.1 o n e s serve* 
but one month. 

Tin- other four commissioners w 
Frederick Lewis, Win. A. Pope 
This board conducted the affairs < 
well that it became 
fust 



president of the board and has l>een in office since 1883. 
The actual value of the water works system is now 
upwards of $1,500,000. It has a bonded debt of 
$170,500, an annual income from rents, frontage 
taxes and other sources of nearly $80,000, has money 
at interest and is therefore more than self-sustaining. 
It owns one (iaskill four- cylinder, compound, condens- 
ing engine with a capacity of 12,000,000 gallons daily, 
and one Holly quadruple engine with a capacity of 
The water is drawn from huge 
and from 




t Wells 
Taylor 



I. Stu; 
and Win. 1 
of the department SO 
Stable investment from the 
Other commissioners have been S. C. Milch 
cock, John Evans, Harper Duscnbury, Abel Bennett, 
J. B. Weed, John Anderson, Geo. W. Lester, Duncan 
K- Grant, Jefferson Kingman, John Bayless, Win. 
Shanlej and Stoddard Hammond. The last named 
five are serving at the present time. Mr. Grant is 



■ than adequate to meet the utmost pos- 
owth during the next several decades. The 
f the two engines cost $42,000 and was paid 
(if the net earnings of the plant. 

1 of Water Commissioners 
,r's receipts were $77,342.- 



capacity m 
sible grow 
lar 

foi 

The report of the Bo 
for 1893 shows that the i 



05, the year's expenditures (including cost of over four 
miles of new mains, etc. i $63,177.20. The yearly rate 
was reduced in April of the preceding year from $5 to 

$4, entailing a reduction of income of about $5,000. 



STAR CHAIR CO., BINGHAMTON. N. Y. 



tancv 0AK and 

hpes ^y and 
Br °catell e 

FanCyDl ^CH AlRs 
'" Le *ther anri 



Porch 




Fancy 



Chairs, 
C ^t Goods 
Kinds. 
Ch'ddren' 



spun"* and 



of a" 



s RocUevs 
and Ca^ 



Cam^H,o\sand 



fi,\d'>n£ 



Chairs. 



Rockers 



OF ALL KINDS. 



Wl II r A Til O OflAI MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF 

. A. HtAIH & MJN, WOOD-WORKING MACHINERY. 




l&€ 







Factory at Lestershire on D.,L.&W. R. R, We Solicita Portion of YourTrade. 



BINGUAMTON PAST AND PRESENT. 



The following statistics arc taken from the secretary's 
report for 1893, and shows the condition of the board's 
financial affairs at this time to be exceedingly healthful : 



arc now in use nearly fifty miles of mains of the fol- 
lowing dimensions : 



i ; om w atei rents 

d fr< mii In mtage tax 

Received from percentage 

Received from sprink li ng wagons . . 
Received from pulling iir scrvn r pip. 
Received from sale of materials. . . . 

ters 

Received for water for builders' use 
Rrci i\ed toi rem of house. 



.-45,^74 10 
. 20,868 8j 
. 5-429 7° 
20 ■ 33 
190 00 
. 2.7S7 00 
025 22 
rS 4 ,o 
S71 29 
309 96 
hi I11 ml [an. I, 1893 15.934 49 

S"3-2 7° 54 
EXPENDITURES. 

Superintendence and office S4.419 81 

Pumping service 0.44S 34 

Maintainance 4,805 17 

Construction 26,417 56 

Service and in.iiei ial 5,°37 °S 

irehased t,oo7 36 

Wal 1 rents refunded 171 01 

Bonds paid 1,50000 

Interesl on I. mds h.oS 4 00 

Buildings and grounds 3.63+67 

Total paid oa! during I S03 S63, 127 20 

hand in bank 515.140 -,4 



Cash on hand (sp 



ikl. 



5,000 00—830, 140 J4 

S93.Z76 54 
Mains were extended during the year 22,616 ted. 
at a cost of 521,155.38, this being nearly the custo- 
mary extension for several years past. Forty-five 
new hydrants were put in. making 469 now in use. 
Water for these hydrants for street sprinkling and 
other municipal uses cost the tax-payers nothing. If 
furnished by private corporation it would cost at least 

$25, , this proving conclusively the wisdom of the 

municipal ownership of franchises. There were 
pumped during the year, to lie exact, 1 ,1544,437,342 
gallons of water, an increase over 1892 of 270,196,- 
520 gallons, and an average for each twenty-four 
hours of t,505,308 gallons. The large increase of 
water pumped over 1892 was largely owing to the 
severely cold weather. Many days there were over a 
million gallons pumped and run through the service 
pipe- into the sewers to keep the pipes from freezing, 
There were consumed for pumping 3,213,893 pounds of 
anthracite buckwheat coal, which cost delivered at 
pumping station $1.75 per ton of 2,000 pounds. 
Average pounds of coal used each twenty four hours, 
8,805 pound-. An idea of the magnitude of the 
water service may be gained from Hi,, fad that there 





M1I.ES. 


FEET. 


1 -inch wrought iron pipe 




4S1 
1.576 
2,078 
3.283 
3.744 
2,341 
3.515 

771 

1,500 

1,215 

69 




IO 

25 

7 
1 
2 








12-inch cast iron pipe 




1 










3 






Total 


49 


4-733 





A further reduction of rates is contemplated as soon 
as the cost of construction in recently acquired dis- 
tricts becomes sufficiently low to warrant it. The fol- 
lowing annual rates prevail at present : 

Baths for family use S 5.00 

1 a. h additional tub. 2.co 

Bars to. 00 

Boilers (3 horse or less) 5.00 

Each additional horse 2.00 

Business places. 5.00 

Culinary use 4.00 

Wash Basins I. Co 

Closets. 4.00 

Fountains from S5.C0 to $70 00 

Garden hose from 3.0c to 5.00 

Motors from S2 5.00 upward 

Stables ..from 2. CO upward 

Idle rale for manufactui nig purposes is si\ cenls per thousand gallons. 

The water provided i> quite free from impurities, 
save when the Susquehanna river is swollen by exceed- 
ingly heavy rains. There is then a deposit of sand or 
silt discernible. It is proposed to filter the water at the 
pumping station as soon as the fiscal condition of the 
Board will permit of it. estimates of the cost having 
already been received. 



BANKING STATISTICS. 

"The safest barometer of the business life of a com- 
munity is found in its banking and financial interests," 
observes Mayor Geo. E. Green in an exhaustive re- 
view of the local business situation in his last annual 
message to the Common Council. So judged, the busi- 
ness interests of Binghamton were never more health- 
ful and never more auspicious of future development 
and prosperity. Comparison is also made between the 
savings bank reports at the close of 1880 and 1890 
respectively. The number of depositors in the two 



< 

If' Illuminating Oils. . . 
. Lubricating Oils 



II :■ ■■ I ' I ( Ills 

: I' .... 



and Greases. 



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Parafine Wax Candles. 



^ .... yv' 



Standard OIL Company, 



OF NEW YORK. 



Binghamton Station — Office, 18 Wall Street, Win. Mason, Manager. 

Works, Erie Street. 

Branch Works at Sidney, Cooperstown and Cobleskill. 

ppfPUl § iiKiasS, "-: :.* — SHAPLEY BOILER. 



BINGHAMTON, N. Y 



Engines, 

Automatic and Plain. 

^oilers, 

Portable and Tubular. 

ANY CAPACITY. 
** 

Steam Fitting, 
Heating ^mj 
Ventilation. 

** 

Ask Cor Prices. 




-I! \I'I I Y |:mii l'|; Willi \ 



Most Extensive Bui 



Tannery 
Machinery 

i\ mis Cf)l XTRY. 

& & & 

SHAFTING, 
HANGERS an d 
PULLEYS. 



^ Iron W 

a a d (-\-istin<js 

3} Brass V_~ = 



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Ask for Prices. 



i£ 



B1NGHAMT0N /'AST AND PBESENT. 



savings banks in 1880 was .'.,947, they having deposits 
in the sum of $1,166,804.15. The number of de- 
positors in L890 was L2,549 with deposits of $2,076,- 
085. 15, a net gain of 78 per cent, during the ten years. 
The number of depositors on January 1, 1894 was 
14,681 ; deposits, $2,508,165.00, a net gain of 20.81 
per cent, in lour years, and this in spite of a financial 
depression thai severely tried the strongest municipal 
structures in the country. 

The city's total hanking capital — represented in two 
savings hanks, one loan and trust company, three nat- 
ional hanks, two state, three private hanks, and two 
first -elas 



plus of $200,000. It is worthy of remark that Bing- 
hamton has yet to record its first hank failure. In- 
tegrity and conservatism characterize the management 
of its banking institutions at all times, thus begetting 
a confidence in their stability that has aided materially 
in bridging over crises before which less substantial 
structures might have fallen. 



CITY FINANCES. 




ROSS PAK 

for hanks hold against one another, show a total business 
for 1891 ithe first full year of the existence of a local 
Clearing House: of $12,522,200 ; for 1892, $13,789,- 
300; firs) six months of L893, $7,316,900; second six 
months of 1893, $8,137,300, making a total for the 
last year of $"l5,454,200, and a net gain for the year 

of $1,664,! Aliout $50,000,000 worth of business 

is transacted between the local and New York City 
hanks. The three national banks have a capital and 

surplus of $690,1 ; the two state banks a capital and 

surplus of $333,000 ; the Trust Company, capital and 
surplus of $425, I and the two savings hanks a sur 



At the close of the fiscal year, February 7, 18'.»4, 
it was shown that not a single city fund was over- 
drawn. Re- 
ports of the 
ondeil in- 
debtedness 
of sixty- 
four cities in 
the United 
States of ap- 
proximately 
this city's 
p o p u 1 a tion 
show that 
but seven 
have a small- 
er bonded in- 
dent e dness 
t h a n Bing- 
hamton and 
five of these 

have a much smaller population. A detailed state- 
ment of Bingham ton's bonded indebtedness follows : 





1892-3 


1893-4 


hi 1 'SB 


[NC'SE 


A. & S. k. K., 3', percent, bonds... 
Courl St. bridge bonds, j pei cent. .. 
Washington St. bridge, 4 pel cent.. .. 
\\ ati 1 V\ orks, $17,500, 7 pei cent. . . . 


$44,000 
77,000 
33,000 
19,000 
91,000 
62,000 
500 


$41,000 
77,000 

(3, 

'17,500 


$3,000 

r,5oo 






62,000 


Si 1 1 1 listrict, No. 13 


500 

3,500 , $3,500 




Net bonded indebtedness 


% (26,000 


$325,000 


$5,000 


$3,500 



In this connection a tabulated statement exhibiting 
the city's population, taxation and debt, and the de- 
crease of public debt per capita may be of interest: 



!|fr: ^ T. H. PARKER, 

Stoves, Ranges and Furnaces. 






GENUINE WROUGHT STEEL RANGES A SPECIALTY 



m # $ o # 



123 State Street. 




Odd! 

But it's so. People don't always con- 
sult their own interests when buying 

VATGHES@dEVEbRY. 

THAT'S WHY EVERY ONE DON'T TRADE HERE. 
GREAT MANY DO, HOWEVER. 

dewelep <Jud§on §. I^ewing, 
138 COURT STREET. 



BINGHAMTON PAST AND PRESENT. 



Populati. 


n. 




. S (890, - ..... 35.09 

' [894, Estimated 12,000 \ ' 


142-53 

per cent. 








.$ 5,826,269.50) 
... [890 17,512,868.00 ■ - OI -4/ ( 


237-4° 






| 1894.. . 19,599,670.00 ) P 


pei cent. 








^ 1880 $299,50000 , 


K.55 








j [894 325,000.00 ( 


percent. 














y Is.,„ ;■ „V. 2 s,,...' ■ ■■■■■ 










(1894 (est'm'd) 292,802.11 ) 






c 




...1880 $17.29. | 1890 ...$9.50. | 189 


-> ....$7-74 




$100 as 


essed valuation, 1880, $[.60. | 1S94, not toe 


^ceed Si. 56 



While the expense of conducting the government, 
the COSt of street pave- 
ments, sewer and other 
public improvements 

mi small proportions, 
it is met by taxible re 
sources of correspond- 
ing dimensions. The 
budgel for the ensuing 
year as made up by 
the common council in 
June is as follows : 

Bonds falling dm - 

Interest on bonds . ; 

1 or sewei : 17.765 6g |}j[ 

I ■ >i pavemenl - 10,610.95 

["ED 1 XPENSES. 
1 tment.. S23.OOO.OO 

I ■ 1 

58, 500.00 

; 11 n 84, 

I I I 

r and San- 

3.99'-2i 

1 

1 8,oco.oo 

Fund 8 1 



.Mayor receiving but $£ a year, and the Aldermen 

nothing. To this may be attributed the city's unin- 
terrupted growth, be the times good or bad, while 
scores of less advantageously situated and less economi- 
cally managed cities hover on the edge of bankruptcy. 
Again to quote from the Mayor's message: 

••Among the tirst points considered by the manu- 
facturer desirous of locating a factory site, are trans- 
portation facilities, character of labor, local govern- 
nt and taxation, water p 



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leges 1 


n«l rates, an 


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surance. Nothing 


will 


awaken suspicion, 


and 


provt 


a greater 


bar- 


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to the favo 


able 


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leration of a 


city 


as a 


home for 11 


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$279,732.85 

The aim of the city government is to secure as low 
a tax rate as is consistent with desirable improvements. 
No department of the government is extravagantly 
in inaged. The salaries of city ofB :ials arc low, the 



lions, which of them- 
selves, create and promote thrift and prosperity 
through employment giving to the masses, whereby 
distributing wealth and home comforts, and as a nat- 
ural result, bringing higher civilization, moral strength, 
increased education and all the concurrent blessings. 

Well and truly said. No other comment is neces 
sary than that the city of Binghamton is to-day one of 
the most beautiful, healthful, prosperous and altogether 
lovely spots on earth. Its people enjoy everj blessing 
conferred liy nature, intelligence, energy and thrift, 
these combining in a superlative degree to form a 



: THE BINGHAMTON DAIRY ASSOCIATION : 

| The product of the best dairies within i i 
• • ARE [Now RECEIVING | from Binghamton. They are receiving OVER 8,000 
f quarts, or more than EIGHT [TJNS ol Milk p • 

Their Sixteen Wagons go to all parts of the City in Winter and Summer, rain or shine, in all seasons and at 
all times you may depend on their being at your door before breakfast, and supply- 
ing you with Milk or Cream in Sealed Glass Jars. 

FRESH CREAMERY BUTTER AND ALL PRODUCTS OF THE DAIRY. 

TELEPHONE ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. 

9S Washington Street, Binghamton, N. V. 

88jpra«2 Manufacturers of and Dealers in 

if % 

mm Pine, 

Hemlock 

Lester-Shire .-Hardwood 

*?*?*? ... . Lumber, 



In the Rough or Worked. 



Planing Mill and 



fJtfftft -._-.. _■-: . .-V .;-?•;. Manufacturers of all kinds of 



Box Manufacturing Go. 



Wooden goxes. 



N B. We have a "Sterling Printing Press' 
for printing wooden boxes- 



if ,.. V' 



LESTER-SHIRE. N. Y. 



BIN GIL 1 MTON 1\ 1 S T „ 1 ND PRESENT. 



stable and contented community in the finest section 
of the Empire state. 



MAM FACTORING INTERESTS. 

It would be impossible to give, within the limits of 
this work, more than a suggestion of the extent and 
diversity of Binghamton's industrial interests. They 
embrace the manufacture of almost everything that 
contributes to the well-being of mankind. Its chief 
industry is the manufacture of cigars, in which it 
takes high rank among the cities of the United States, 
if nut of thi' world. Measured by the value of the 
annual output 
it is surpassed 
by but one city 
in the United 
States, and that 
one the Metro- 
pol is. There 
are employed 
in this industry 
alone from 4,- 
ooo t o 6,000 
persons. The 
dozen principal 
fad ories em- 
ploy from one 
hundred to six 
hundred hands 
each, and make 
from live million to twenty-five million cigars each an- 
uallv. The titty or more smaller factories employ 
from ten to fifty person- each, many of them making 
hand work exclusively. 

The quality of Binghamton cigars has been improved 
from year to year until it has attained a high degree of 
excellence. Their sale extends into every state and 
territory, many large Western jobbers handling them 
almost entirely. Indeed so high a reputation have 
Binghamton cigars gained in the markets of this 
country that they are virtually relieved from the com- 
petition of localities manufacturing cheap grades from 
dome-tie tobacco-, and hoping with cheap labor to 




•AKK AVENUE 



gain a temporary market by underselling their com- 
petitors. 

The supremacy of this industry is due to several 
causes. Foremost may be mentioned the exceptional 
shipping facilities of the city, its low rents, and its 
proximity to the best tobacco-growing section of this 
state and Pennsylvania. Every labor saviDg device 
that ingenuity has evolved is employed in the large 
factories, not to the disadvantage of labor nor to the 
detriment of goods, but to facilitate the manufacture 
of goods and to enable the producer to market them 
readily at attractive prices. Push and enterprise must 

also be con- 
sidered as de- 
nt e n t s which 
have contrib- 
uted to the up- 
building of the 
industry. 

It is esti- 
mated that 
more than $2,- 

." I is paid 

out in wages 
a n n u a 1 1 y to 
those who make 



igars, cigar 

loxes, print 
abelSj and cn- 
ooking south. g :l g in the 

other employments depending on the cigar business. 
Employes in the cigar factories proper receive about 
12,400,000 of thi.- magnificent sum. Many employes 
are females and no wage discrimination is made be 
tween the sexes, the piece-price plan prevailing in all 
the factories. 

The growth of the cigar business is be-t conceived 
from a comparative statement of the annual output 
.lining the last fifteen years. The number of cigars 

shipped in 1880was25, 1,000, and they were made 

by half a dozen shops. In L883 the output had nearly 

doubled, i:., being sent abroad. The number 

shipped in L884 was 56, ,000: in l s ^-">. 64,700,- 



* 6. 6- HUDDEBACK, 

M anu f a c 1 1 1 re r 



AND DEALERS IN 



CIGAF? MANUFACTURERS' SUF*F>L,IBS 

4 AND 6 STATE STREET, 

n. B.-EMBossiNc, a specialty. Bingharnton, N. Y. 



Columbian M'fb. 6o. 

STRONG BLOCK, 159 STATE STRGGT. 

Electric Dynamos a nd Motors 
Climax Water Motors, 



Electrical Supplies, Batteries, Bells, Annunciators, Incandescent Lamps. 



Wiring for Electric Lighting. 



BINGHAMTON PAST AND PRESENT. 



000 : in 1886, 90,000, > : in 1887, 1 15,000,000. 

The two following years it exceeded 150,000,000 an- 
nually, thai being about the mark reached in every 
succeeding year. This incredible number is sold by 
an army of experienced salesmen in every large city, 
and there is every prospect that the business will long 
continue to be a prosperous and profitable one for all 
connected therewith. 

Bingbamton also takes high rank in the manufact- 
ure of carriages and sleighs, this being probably the 
second industry in point of magnitude and amount of 



whip sockets, leather gloves and mittens and wire nails. 
There is nearly a quarter of a million dollars invested 
in the seed business, more grass seed being destributed 
from this point than from any other point in the 
United States except New York. 

It is thus seen that Binghamton is above all a city of 
workers. There is, in point of fact, no reason why it 
should not become one of the leading manufacturing 
and commercial cities of the state, its situation with 
reference to coal fields, its shipping facilities, its 
abundant water supply and the many other endow- 
ments already 
mentioned all 
contributing to 
the speedy at- 
tainment of that 
end. 




\MTON DAIRY 



vestment of from $50,000 to |500,000 are the follow- 
ing : tanning, overalls, hoots and shoes, baby car- 
riages, carriage hardware, clover and timothy seeds, 
boilers and engines, lumber and wood work, milling, 
brewing, glass Mow ing, scales, combs and buttons, 
chairs, hoes and tool-. Less extensive hut equally 
prosperous concerns are those devoted to the manu- 
facture of time recorders, motors and electrical sup- 
plies, harness, clothing, paper and wood pulp, barrels, 
cracker-, wood alcohol, wire goods, flexible shafts. 
butter pails, metal g 1-. patent medicines, whips and 



A RAILWAY 
CENTEE. 

It has been 
-aid that Bing- 
hamton is des- 
tined, by reason 
of its railway 
advantages, to 
become a city of 
75,000 people 
within the next 
twenty year s. 
The prophesy is 
by no means an extravagant one. Its fulfillment may 
lie achieved within half that time. Binghamton is a 
natural railway center. It was a highway and a path- 
way center for ages before its discovery by the white 
race It was a rendezvous for Indian tribes, the focus 
of their forest paths, and became an important stage 
station almost from its foundation. In the graphic 
words of a local chronicler : " From Sir William John- 
son's castle on the lower Mohawk, or from Albany, 
the aboriginal traveler wended hi- way westward via 
Chenango Point. His route may have been by way of 



HARDWARE. 



Carriage Goods Blacksmith Goods 

« Builders' Goods * 

New Model Lawn Mowers Rival Lawn Mowers 

Disston's Saws 

J Hoyt's Leather Belting Rubber Belting > 

Barbed Wire Poultry Netting 

Don't buy a Refrigerator until you have examined our ' u NEW PERFECTION." 

Crocker & Ogden, 

PHELPS BANK BUILDING, BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK- 

: FRED MOON & CO., 



Manufacturers of 



j High-Grade Cigars, 

j 138 and 140 STATE STREET 

BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK. 



56 



BINGHAMTON PAST AND PRESENT. 



Cooperstown, the Otsclic or Tioughniogna, but he 
passed the night at the confluence of the Chenango and 
Susquehanna, starting westward in the morning by way 
of what was later the old Owego road, southward by 
the lake trail, or eastward past Ouaquaga mountain, 
as his mission might lead him, for all travelers be- 
tween the tribes had missions of a tribal nature. 
From Manhattan, which was for centuries an import- 
ant trading point, he journeyed westward to Niagara 
via Ouaquaga and Chenango Point. 1 ' 

The war for our national independence witnessed the 
jnii r n e y of 




KNTUAM'F, TO li< ISS l'AKK 



from tin 1 earliest days of human activity, and so will 
the iron or electric horse continue to lead thereto, mak- 
ing it, what nature decreed, the hub of this part of the 
country, from which radiate gleaming spokes toward 
every pari of the compass. 

Railways are the great arteries through which the 
commerce of the country finds the markets of the 
world. A town without these arteries is of necessity 
restricted in its commerce to local or nearly points. 
A town favored with a number id' these arteries be- 
comes at once an important commercial center, facili- 
ties for egress and ingress inviting the establishment 



of industries and the resultant influx of the industrious 
and their capital. A number of railways leading to 
or through any given point gives to it an advantage 
over competitive points not only in transportation 
facilities hut in rates, and this naturally attracts such 
capital as may seek the most profitable field for invest- 
ment. 

By consulting a map of New York state it may be 
seen that Binghamton is almost the geographical center 
of the territory lying between the Great lakes and the 
Atlantic ocean, it being nearly equi-distant from New 

York, Phila- 
delphia and 
Buffalo, with 
Albany, Roch- 
ester, Syra- 
cuse, Ctica 
and Scranton 
in the unequal 
periphery, and 
all far enough 
away to place 
them without 
the pale of 
Binghamton's 
eon t ributary 
erritory. The 
distance to 
New York city 
is 216 miles; 
to Philadel- 
phia, '.'l'ii miles: Buffalo, 208 miles: Albany, 142 
miles: Syracuse, so miles: Ttica, 100 miles : Koch- 
ester, 180 miles and Scranton, 62 miles. 



RAILWAY HISTORY. 

The New York, Lake Erie and Western was the 
pioneer railway of this locality, and as its his tor J is in 
a degree intermingled with a history of the city the 
following brief -ketch of it- westward journey is given : 
An act to incorporate the railroad was passed April 
24, 1832. Among the incorporators were Joshua 



5. 0. Schcncl^, 



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Practical A/Jachinists. 

SHAFTING, HANGERS, PULLEYS, &c 

Brass Bar Rails. 

Iron and Brass Castings. 

Brass Fittings to Order. 



r d Fl s c H E p, 196 State Street, 



BlNGHAMTON, N. Y. 



58 



BINGHAMTON PAST AND PRESENT. 



Whitney, Christopher Eldredge and James McKiuney 
of Binghamton. The locomotive was at that time 
deemed almost an untried power, and the Legislature 
was careful to ''empower the use of steam, animals or 
any mechanical or other power, or of any combination 
of them for a term of 50 years." This great enter- 
prise was started at a time when "the feasibility and 
even the general usefulness of such means of com- 
munication were held in question. The science of 
civil engineering was comparatively in its infancy."' 

It was not till 1836 that a loan was authorized, 
and thai ad was so hampered by conditions as to be 
useless. There- 
fore the work 
was not com- 
menced u n t i 1 
1840. Up to 
1 s 4 5 only 
forty-five miles 
had been com- 
pleted. Nov. 
3rd, 1847, the 
road was ex- 
tended to Mid- 
dletown, lifty- 
three mil e s 
f r o in N e n 
York, later to 
Otisville, eight 
miles farther, 
and Jan. 6th, 

L848, to Porl Jervis, thirteen miles beyond 
28th, L848, saw the lasl spike driven on the 127 mile 
extension from Porl Jervis to Binghamton, and June 
1st, 1849, from Binghamton to Owego. It was not 
until April 22nd, 1851, that this road was pushed 
through to Dunkirk, and from thai date Binghamton's 
growth commenced. The railway now extends to 
Chicago, and lias trunk connections to every large city 
of the West. 

The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, another greal 
trunk line passing through the city and having import- 
anl branches here, made its last connecting link between 




Great Bend and Binghamton in 1869. It extends 
from New York and Philadelphia to Buffalo and the 
far West. It owns and operates the Syracuse & 
Binghamton, a line running North to Syracuse and 
Oswego, intersecting the New York Central system and 
giving communication with Lake Ontario. The com- 
pany also owns and operates a lino running to Itica. 
The Lackawanna is one of the most ably managed 
roads of the country, its tracks and rolling stock com- 
paring favorably with the best. 

The Albany iS Susquehanna railway runs from this 
city to the Slate Capital and thence to Canada and New 

England. I t 
connects with 
the Erie at this 
point and with 
the Fitchburg 
at Troy. The 
Albany and 
S u s q u ehanna 
road was pro- 
jected in 1851 
and was opened 
to Schoharie in 
September i n 
L863 and it 
reached Coble- 
sk i 1 1 early in 
'6 5, Oneonta 
in September 
of t h e same 
year, Unadilla early in V,i;, Sidney late in October of 
that year, and Bainbridge in July of 1867, Nineveh in 
the Fall of 1867 and Binghamton in January of L869. 
The road is operated by the Delaware & Hudson 
Canal Company. 

\ LINK TO \\ II I 1 IMSPORT, PA. 

The city has been compared to the hub of a wheel 
whose spokes are its railways. The figure is not quite 
perfect, however, as the southwestern spoke is want- 
ing. This will be supplied in the building of the pro- 
posed road to Williamsport, Pa., an active survey of 
which is now being made. The distance is about one 



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MILES LEONARD. 




Contractor 

and Builder. 



Estimates Furnished on all Kinds of Buildings. 



Stone ^nd Brick Work a Specialty 



Office, 3-7 WASHINGTON ST. 



60 



BINGHAMTON PAST AXD PRESENT. 



hundred miles and threads one of the richest coal, iron 
and lumber regions of the extremely rich Keystone 
state. The proposed line would connect Binghamton 
with the Northern Central and Pennsylvania Central 
at Williamsport, and thus open a short route to Pitts- 
burg, Cincinnati and St. Louis, placing this city into 
direct communication with the oil and bituminous coal 
fields of western Pennsylvania, and establishing the 
shortest line between New England and the southwest. 
So manifold are the advantages that would accrue to 
Binghamton from the construction of the proposed 
line that its long delay has created great surprise. 
Indeed, had it 



through freight. It is not unlikely that the manage- 
ment will soon construct a link from the bridge east of 
the city along the path of the old canal to Willow- 
Point, thus relieving the passenger and way freight 
rails to a great extent. The right of way and ample 
station facilities could be secured at small cost. 




of great loss of revenue to his 
plank road the richest adjoining territory that this city 
possesses would long since have been opened. The pro- 
ject bas been discussed from time to lime, and seems 

to lie on the eve of aeh ie\ enielit . Binghamton and 

Williamsporl once connected, then Boston and Pitts- 
burg are bul ten hours apart, and the mines and wells 
of western Pennsylvania are at our doors. 

The somewhat limited territory owned by the Dela- 
ware, Lackawanna cc Western railway in the city lias 
tinned the attention of its management in the direction 
of securing 



STREETS AND SANITATION. 

Among the many attractive features of Binghamton 
none catches the eye of the stranger so quickly as the 
streets. The first settlers and their immediate follow- 
ers p 1 an n e d 
well when they 
laid out its 
broad, level, 
well-shaded 
thoroughfares. 
In the main, 
the streets run 
at right angles 
to one another. 
! They are skirt- 
ed with Maples 
and Elms, 
which in many 
p arts of the 
city form beau- 
tiful arches of 
foliage, the 
broad branch- 
ing Elms almost interlacing across the hard smooth 
roadbed below. The streets slope gently toward the 
Susquehanna or Chenango river, so that no surface 
water remains even after the hardest rainfalls. On 
the contrary, showers cleanse them so effectually that 
the entire city appears as fresh and pure as the most 
fastidious could wish after every rainfall. 

There are at this writing about one hundred miles 
of streets in this city, and more than two hundred 
miles of Bide and crosswalks. The streets arc flanked 
by twenty-three miles of city sewers, there being in 



secODd line through the city for its addition many private sewers from property along the 



* Binghamton /Owning and Jent (?o. • 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

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Awnings, jfe^v Tents, 

Covers, T^ll Flags. 

HORSE CLOTHING ™ SPECIALTIES. 

TENTS TO HIRE. FLAGS RENTED FOR DECORATING. 

- - - TELEPHONE CONNECTION. - - - 

1SO Park Avenue, Rossville. 




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DO NOT BE PERSUADED TO TflKE flNY OTHER MAKE. 

BUY AN "ACORN" AND YOU WILL BE MORE THAN SATISFIED. 

Also, a Full Line of 

Jewett Refrigerators, Oil and Gasoline Stoves- Lawn Mowers. 

flLSO, TIN, IRON AND COPPER WARE. 

MATTHEW O'NEILL, - 18 FERRY STREET. 



62 



BIXGII. 1 M TOX I '. I S T . 1 XD J 'RES EXT. 



banks of the rivers. The total cost of sewers has been 
$378,512. A large brick sewer connects the State 
Hospital for the Insane with a point in the river nearly 
a mile below the city water works, an intervening dam 
further obviating danger of contamination. Nearly 
seven miles of sewer is of brick, the remainder being 
of vitrified pipe of the best quality. Six miles of new 
sidewalk grades were given last year, profiles made 
for nearly two miles of streets and one and three- 
fourths miles of sewer was built. The recent exten- 
sion of the boundary lines of the city made necessary 
the greater part of this work. The main business 

streets of the 

city are paved 
with the best 



Mayor Green's words on this subject as presented in 
his last annual message: "The truest economy in 
street paving comprehends not alone the original cost 
of the pave, but its character, the effect of frost, the 
cost of repairs to the pavement, vehicles, etc., the non- 
retention of dust or filth, involving comfort and health, 
the noise, etc., etc. Experience in other municip- 
alities, and at home, have demonstrated beyond a doubt 
the false economy and uudesirability of wooden pave- 
ments. Berlin claims to be the cleanest city in Europe 
or America, and at the least cost per square yard. It 
has many well-laid stone pavements, almost like floors. 
It has increas- 



quality < 


if As- 


p halt 


t h a t 


could 1 


e ob- 


tained. 


Prior 


to the 


int ro- 


duction 


of As- 


pbalt the City 


Father's 


l.ad 


bee 11 


c o m- 


in i t t c 


d t o 


Chestnut block 


pavement, but 


it did no 


prove 


satisfs 


ctory. 


Expcri 


lllellt 




lias also been made with vitrified brick, with what de- 
gree of success it is yet too early to determine. Last 
year there were laid 7,313.34 yards of Asphalt pave- 
ment on Ferry and Front streets, costing $20,257.95, 
($2.77 per square yard, i The Courl streel bridge was 
also paved with Asphalt, al an expense of $6,113.45. 
The city now has paved streets to the extent of 67,- 
> s l square yards of wood paving, 65,099.39 square 
yards of Asphall and 3, t81.26 square yards of brick. 
The total cost of all pavements to date amounts to 
$363,803.93. 

So important a problem is that of paving in every 
3sing city that we make no apology for quoting 





ed its Asphalt 
at about twelve 




per cent, each 


;.^% 


year for seven- 


V 


teen years, and 
it is claimed 


Ms 


that this i s 
done not only 
for comfort, 
but to save 


f\- 


money for re- 


zi n m±. 


p airs a n d 




c 1 e a n i ng, so 


" 


c o s 1 1 y under 




the old system 




of pavements. 


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The price of 


ieen materially 


• reduced in some 



cities during the past year." 

Great care is exercised to conserve the health of the 
community in the maintenance of a competent Health 
Board, Hoard of Plumbing Inspectors and a Sanitary 

Inspector. No disease- breeding spots are permitted to 
exi^t in any part of the city under penalty of heavy 
tine. The mortality rate is therefore very low. For 
1893 it was lower than in any preceding year since the 
foundation of the city. It is thought that a garbage 
crematory will be provided within the next two years. 
The city covers an area of ten square miles, available 
grounds for dumping garbage being therefore no longer 



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BINGEAMTON PAST AND PRESENT. 



readily accessible. As the city owns its water supply 
system it is enabled to make free use of that agent for 
purifying purposes, and the result is manifest in the 
scrupulous cleanliness of every quarter. 



OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS. 

The city government is not remiss in providing 
street illumination, the electrical system being em- 
ployed except in a few outlying districts. There are 
maintained 252 arc lights of 2,000 candle power burn- 
ins from dark to daylight every night in the year. 
They entail a 
cost of $27,594 



Common Council : "The establishment of municipal 
lighting plants appears to be growing in popular favor, 
and is in line with the advanced thought of to-day. In 
view of the, rapid advancement in electric science, and 
the marvelous discoveries resulting in new and im- 
proved appliances and processes, both for gas and 
electric lighting, it may be expected that continual 
reduction will occur in the cost of generating lights, 
and the machinery and methods of to-day become 
almost absolute within the next few years. Under the 
existing conditions, and in anticipation of something 
better, I am of the opinion that this city can afford to 

closely watch 




ruination is furnished by the Binghamton General 

Electrical company. In addition to street lighting, 

the city now pays for lights as follows : 

$i oo pei daj 5365.00 

Ross Park 1 in nnm, about ' 300.C0 

Common 1 electric) $ 1 5.00 pei month. 1S0.00 

1 ourl and Police Headquarters (electric,) 824.75 per 

1 297.00 

City Building (Firemen's llall.i (ya-;.) meter charge per annum.. 669.92 



Total $1,811.92 

The question of establishing a municipal electiric 
lighting plant has been agitated from time to time, 
but nothing definite has come of it. Sentiment touch- 
ing the advisability of such a step is divided, and may 
be expressed in the language of the Mayor to the 



as follows : hotels, 32 ; saloon, liquor, 109 ; store- 
keepers, 28 : ale and beer, 13. The total amount re- 
ceived for licenses granted in 1893 was 12,800, a de- 
crease of $1,099 from the preceding year. This, it is 
claimed, can be accounted for by the working of the 
amended state law permitting druggists to take out a 
storekeeper's license, without a druggist's license. 
POLICE PROTECTION. 
A vigilant and effective police department composed 
of a chief, two assistant chiefs, one detective, one 
roundsman and twenty-four patrolmen preserve the 
purity of the social atmosphere. The department is 



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with premiums payable weekly at the home of 
the person insured. The 

c , , . f t . „ ,, ORDINARY BRANCH 

For further mtormation, call on or address any 



represemative ot the Company, or of the Company issues all the popular foi 

Life and Endowment Policies, in sum- from 
$1,000 to $2£,ooo, with premiums payable an- 
nually, semi-annually or quarterly at the 
offices of the Company. 



W. E. RALPH. 



General agent, 
[5-16 .- McNamara Block, BINGHAMTON, N. Y. 



Jo\VelT]Qcisii]ess ^ollege, 



BINGHAMTON, N. V ^''V 



A thorough training given young people of both sexes in 

Boo^eepina, . Slioi<[l{ciiid, . Telegtfqpliy, . Peqmqiisliip, 

COMMON AND HIGHER ENGLISH AND MATHEMATICS. 



Business Men Furnished 

Competent Office Help. 
White For Catalogue. 



J. E. BLOOMER, 

Principal and Proprietor 



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66 



BINGHAMTOS J 'AST AND PRESENT. 



under the control of a Board of commissioners, and 

every endeavor is put forth to maintain the highest 
possible standard of excellence. Gambling resorts and 
other places of questionable color are suppressed ;i> 
far as possible, and illegal liquor selling is rigidly pro- 
hibited. The resident criminal class is exceedingly 
small, and the rowdyism usually prevalent in cities of 
this size, is remarkable for its scarcity, if not for its 
complete absence. General good order, peace and 
quiet prevail at all times in an unusual degree. This 
is not the least of the attractions which the city pos- 
sesses as a habitation. Parents may rest secure at all 

t i m e s that 

their children 
are not sub- 
jected openly 
to the e\ il in 
fluences ob- 
tain i n g in 
p laces i n 
which police 
vigilence i s 
less rigidly 
imposed. So 
high a stand- 
ard of effici 
e n c y is re- 
quired that 
the bods has 

gained more 

CHENAK 
than local 

renown, the Binghamton force having become 

n\ in for all that is best in police organizations 




ROSS PARK. 



.Inst within the Southern boundary of the city a deep 
defile winds its way sinuously between lofty, tree-clad 
hills for nearly half a mile to the summit beyond. It 
is clothed with majestic Tines. Hemlocks, Oaks and 
Chestnuts, while in Springtime the snowj blooms of 

lie Dogw I gleam at intervals through the gloomy 

low-hanging foliage. A cold clear stream brawls 



noisily over the moss-grown boulders in its bed. To 
the West of the defile rises a commanding bluff called 
"Point Lookout," from which there breaks upon the 
view a prospect of surpassing loveliness. The valley 
of the Susquehanna, visible for nearly a score of miles, 
its sides broken by wood arid meadow, spreads in a 
splendid panorama from beneath one's feet: and 
through it the placid river winds like a gently narrow- 
ing band of silver until it passes away in the haze in- 
verting with softly changing lights of rose and gold 
the far Western horizon. 

Away to the North converges the picturesque valley 
of the Chen- 
ango, Mount 
P r o s p e c-t 
frowning 
grimly in the 
f o re ground. 
The beautiful 
1 a n d s c a p e 
here again be- 
comes mellow 
in the reced- 
ing distance, 
until, blend- 
ing with the 
reflected tints 
of its ii w ii 

J \iicnt glory. 

it is trans 

fuse d w i t h 

into the deeper blue 

To the East there 

vista. The Susque- 

hills to disappear 

em its course, 
handiwork of 
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delicate amethyst, melting at 1 
i if the low-arching heavens 
stretches a scarcely less splendid \ 
hanna winds and rewinds among th 
only when the eye can no longer disce 
But more beautiful even than th 
nature — more beautiful because' instinct with 
the city below. Its magnificent buildings. it> cloud 
piercing spires. it> monumental chimneys from whicl 
lull- the .-moke of prosperous industry to mingle witl 
and fade into the blue of the .-Ties, its streets witl 
their garniture of living green, all combine to form i 



Wholesale Butter House 



ESTABLISHED IN BUSINESS 1844. 



REMOVED FROM WAVERLY. TIOGA CO.. N. Y. 



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JOHN R. JONES, 

219 State St , Near Lewis, BINGHAMTON. N. Y. 



r" i E. 6. Freeman, 



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MANUFACTURER OF 



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Tinware, Etc., Etc. 

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BINGHAMTON, N. Y. 



68 



BINGHAMTON J 'AST AND PRESENT. 



picture of matchless beauty- -a picture which awakens 
at once thoughts of the present and of the past when 
only the Redman's cry echoed across the valley now 
cradled so calmly in the summer's sun. 

The two massive towers at the base of the bluff 
mark the entrance to the park. -lust over the ravine 
to the ridrl lies an enclosure in which gambol a num- 
ber of deer and other animals. To the rear towers a 
signal station, and investing the whole is a forest of 
trees and shrubs through which scores of children play 
from dawn to sunset. Rustic arches woo one to rest 
a1 every turn of 
t b e numerous 
paths that wim 
about and over 
the hills. It is 
an ideal retreat 
in w h ic h the 
wayfarer may 
enjoy the repose 

of natur e or 
commingle with 

the plca-ui— of 
her children, 
forgetting for 
the t ime the 
heartache of the 
bu sj world 
around. Hoss 
Park, which in- 

c I u d e s t h e WAS 

ravine, its enclosing bluffs and their envi 
contain an area of about one hundred i 
given to the city by Mr. Erastus Ross in 1 
park purposes. It is under the jurisdicl 
government vested in a Board of Park Commissioners 
The l'aik Amii-cinciit Company has secured the Sum 
mer use of its amusement privileges, and has don< 
much to beautify and popularize the place. It i- con 
nectcd with the centre of the city by an electric rail 
way line of the best cla^s. and thousands of people eu 
joy it- shady nooks and dells during the sultry months 
Itoss Tails baa become of late years the most popu 




and was 
or public 
f the city 



lar resort for picnic, excursion and other parties in 
this part of the state, dividing attention with several 
more pretentious and more widely advertised pleasure 
resorts. There is scarcely a day from June to October 
that does not bring its throngs of merry-makers from 
a hundred villages within a radius of as many miles to 
enjoy its cool pure atmosphere. 

In addition to the attractions so bountifully be- 
stowed by nature, the Talk Commissioners have added 
many of their own. The city annually appropriates 
$3,000 for the maintenance of the park, and with this 
a number of ani- 
mals have been 
purchased to de- 
light the eyes of 
the little ones. 
There have also 
been introduced 
a m e r r y-go- 
round, a switch- 
b a c k railway, 
burros for the 
use of those w bo 
may not care to 

Climb the -leep 

sides of the 

dancing pa vil 

ion. mammoth 
refresh me n t 
:r looking NORTH. hall, rustic pa- 

numerous to 
nacadamized 



3S in reality 
of the pari 
,'d with electricity. So widely 



godas and other f 
mention.-' The d 
and brilliently illui 
have the attractions of this sylvan resort become ad- 
vertised by the thousands who have visited it in the 
past that it is become in very truth the Mecca of every 
Sabbath school, social club or fraternal order that can 
afford the health-giving luxury of an annual. summer 
outing. A brass band is also a permanent attraction 
of the park. 

Bennetl Park is a wooded tract lying in the North- 
western part of the city and is also accessible by 



I M>. I' II, C.I \ N I- 



CULHANE & GREEN ""■ 

I no. I. IVTcIneppcy & fio. 



Have One of the Largest Stocks of Furniture in the City, 
Comprising 



Dining Room, Parlor, / I , ■ 

Silting Room, Chamber, / and (je^ars 

Hall and Kitchen Goods and Carpets 

Mt. Vernon, Hermitage, Private Stock, 

At Prices as Low as Can Be Quoted at any Place in the City. Golden Wedding. Gibson, Old Crow, 

and all the Leading i:,.,,,.i- i B n and D Btlc 

CHAMPAGNES I CLARETS, also ;i Full 1 Ine of 

CULHANE & GREEN, ttINEKAL WATEKS FOK TABLI VS1 

162 and 163 WASHINGTON ST. W WASHINGTON SI, B I N G H A IVl T M , t I 

— Stearns 
Bicycles 



F. R. KEYES^ 



leaf Tobacco 

20 and 22 Susquehanna St. 




J. H. Hopler & Co., 



,1 IENTS, 



1^2 Washingl - n, IN. Y. 



B1NGUAMTON PAST AND PRESENT. 



electric railway. Concerts and dances are 
there occasionally during the Summer. 



AMUSEMENT PLACES. 
In close connection with outdoor amusement places 
may be mentioned the threaters, of which Binghamton 
possesses two, the Stone and the Bijou. 



The larger 



tainable being given to a reasonable scale of prices. 
The Stone is the legitimate successor of the Washing- 
ton street opera house which was torn down to make 
way for the extension of Henry street soon after the 
dedication of the present splendid structure. 

The Bijou is a cosy edifice situated on lower Water 
street, and caters to as respectable a class of the local 



and costlier of the two is the Stone. It is a superb public as the large theater. It was erected by Mr. Lee 
playhouse, and was erected through the enterprise of Mr. M. Cafferty about a year ago and is conducted by A. 
Chas. M. Stone about two years ago. It occupies A. Fenyvessy. The Bijou has a seating capacity of 



a tine site on Chenango 
street almost opposite 
the site oft lie Academy 
of Music which was 
destroyed by tire nine 
years ago. 

The Stone is con- 
ceded cil by traveling 
players to be one of 
the most beautiful and 
thoroughly appointed 
places of its kind in 
the United States. Its 
cost was about $150,- 
000. T h e orchestra 
floor contains about 600 
hand-. me plush cover- 
ed chairs of the latcsl 
design. Eight pros- 
cenium boxes, the bal- 
cony and gallery make 
its total seating capacit v 

. , \l UN STREET, AND CI 

nearly fourteen hun- 
dred. The stage is very large, and is supplied with full 
sets of scenery in sufficient variety to present any style 
of play. There is a commodious dance hall in another 
pari of the building, also offices for the theater corps, 
etc. The entrance and foyer are beautifully frescoed 
in style to conform with the handsome interior decor 
ations. Nothing that could add to the comfort of its 
patrons has been omitted. This theater is under the 
lesseeship of Messrs. J. P. E. Clark and E.G. Delavan, 
the best class of dramatic and operatic attractions ob- 




about eight hundred 
persons, composed of 
orchestra floor, t wo 
boxes and gallery. 
Both theaters are well 
patronized and suc- 
cessful. 

HACK COURCE8. 

Binghamton contains 

two places wherein 
horse races are given. 
They are those of the 
Binghamton Driving 
Bark and the Mow 
Driving Bark Associa- 
tions. The former is 
located a mile wot of 
the city. It contains 
a half mile track and 
is amply provided with 
accommodations. The 
latter lies north of the 
city and is equipped 
with a half mile and a mile kite-shaped track. The 
annual meets of the New York State Breeders Associ- 
ation are held on this track. 

BASE BALL. 

In an adjoining lot is one of the handsomest base 
ball grounds in the state. Binghamton having ever 
taken an active interest in the national game. Enthus- 
iasts still speak admiringly of the "Old Crickets." an 
invincible team in its day (1876), before which the 
strongest National League teams experienced defeat. 



1-jOTEL BENNETT, 



» » « • BINGHAMTON, N. Y. 



The Only First-Class hotel. 



AND IT'S IN THE BUSINESS PART OF THE Cm 



ONE OF THE BEST APPOINTED HOTELS IN THE STATE. 



35" Rooms 

With Bath. 




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10 bqi^G t(qiidsoii)e PqiflotfsSqifable fo* Contentions. 



MEN WAITERS, 
TABLE AND SERVICE UNSURPASSED. 



Ticket Office in the Hotel, 
Where Tickets and Mileaye Books are Sold at Reduced Rates 



Commercial l^ates $2.00, $2.50 and $§,00 per Da£ 
Pree 'Bus tfo and prom dAW grains. 



PROPRIETOR. 



BINGHAMTON PAST AND PBESENT. 

epresented in the International 
i the Eastern League conte 



The city was als 

League race, and later in the Eastern League contests. 

It wo., the Eastern League pennant in L892 

still an ardent base ball city. 



hamton as a desirable place of residence, and for the 
employment of capital : the use of all proper means to 



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THE BOARD OF TRADE. 

The Binghamton Boari 
for fifty years on Fel.ru 
charter membership of 
enterprising citizens. 
It has grown from year 
to year until it numbers 
between three hundred 
and four hu n d r ed 
members, all looking 
with eye single to the 
advancement of the 
city's business inter- 
ests, as set forth in the 
following section of its 
by-laws: 

•• The objects of this 
Association are to pro- 
v id e and regulate a 
suitable room or rooms 
for the Board of Trade 
in the city of Bing- 
hamton: to inculcate 
just and equitable prin- 
ciples in trade : to es- 
tablish and maintain 

iiniformiu i n <■ 

mercial usages ; to ac 
quire, preserve a a d 

disseminate valuable business information : to adjust 
controversies and misunderstandings between it- mem- 
bers; to protect and foster the mercantile and manu- 
facturing industries: to promote the commerce of the 
citj of Binghamton and its general prosperity, by the 
solicitation of manufacturers and business enterprises 
to locate within it- boundaries and adjacent territory. 
the promulgation of the advantage- possessed by Bing- 



obtain legislation, national, state and municipal, favor- 
able to the interests of the city and its inhabitants ; the 
extension of facilities of transporation, and the pro- 
tection of the trade of the city from unjust discrimi- 
nation in rates of freight or otherwise; and generally 
by uniform and well directed efforts to advance and ex- 
tend the welfare and promote the commercial integrity 
of the business com- 
munity.*" 

The organization is 
governed by a Board 
of Trustees — thirteen 
in number — elected by 
ballot at the annual 
meeting, all members 
of the Board of Trade, 
in good standing, be- 
ing entitled to vote. 
A secretary is elected 
by the trustees. No 
official of the Board of 
Trade receives any sal- 
ary or compensation 
for services rendered, 
except the secretary. 
It has never been the 
policy of the Board to 
offer costly induce- 
ments to seekers for 
the location of more or 
less mythical industries. 
To quote again from 
the last annual nics- 
Ou many occasions the natural 
inducements and the splendid facilities afforded for 
industries to locate here, have been fully appreciated. 
The manufacturers desiring to effect a change in the 
location of their plants have been deeply impressed by 
the superior advantages possessed by Binghamton in 
comparison with other cities, but another city than 
ours was eventually -elected, simply because a larger 




of the May< 



av kiNNey evaRts & CO. 

Coffee and Spice Mills 







Importers of the 

Flower Girl Teas, 

Jobbers of 

Molasses, Canned Goods, Tobacco, Etc. 

Also Manufacturers of the 

Triumph Baking Powder, 



186-188 State St.. Binghamton.N.Y. 



Setppett 8po<§.. 



O. W. SEH^S, 



Whole. :,!,■ mid l;,t:i 



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New York, Lake Erie & Western R. R. Co. 



ANTHRACITE 
AND 
BITUMINOUS 



Coal 



P1AN0S, ORB^RS 

oAnd Musical Merchandise of all Kinds. 



WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. 



PRICES LOW. 



TERMS REASONABLE. 



98 and UK) Qoiivt St., 

BingHamton, l\J . V. 



19 CLINTON STREET, BINGHAMTON. N. Y. 



BINOHAMTON I 'AST AND PRESENT. 



cash bonus, possibly in addition to lands or the gifl of 
a plant, was offered and accepted. Many commercial 
wrecks and ruined manufacturers are discovered on 
every side standing as unite monuments of warning 
againsl inducing industries to locate on the alms-giving 
or take all-that-comes principle." -Many commercial 
•strikers' are abroad seeking whom they may devour. 
Sponsors of cashless concerns or of enterprises with 
capital and business in a decaying condition, desire 'a 
change' of location, owing to inadequate facilities, 
etc and are traveling the country, and through cor- 
respondence p r o- 
pounding the all-ab- 
s o r lii n g query, 
• W hat i n d u c e- 
nients will your 
city offer?' The 
highest cash bonus 
regardless of other 
at t ract ions, wi 
usually land the en- 
terprise, and soon 
after the felicita- 
tions cease on the 
part of the press 
and people because 
of -added indust- 
ries,' joy gives 
place to mourning 
a n d the tinanci: ' 
wreck floats outs 
as a buoy to warn others from similar industrial 
shoals. If the end was here, less would lie the harm, 
hut business failures, especially if repeated with fre- 
quency, soon place question marks opposite the credit 
and good name of a municipality and repulse responsi- 
ble enterprises from locating therein. Owners of 
honest, competent industrial plants, seeking new fields, 
will for good and sufficient reasons prefer the location 
P issessing equivalent advantages to any other, and in 
addition, offering a substantial bonus in cash or its 
equivalent." 

The Board disapproves of the subsidizing of manu- 



facturers, and its attitude is sustained by the conserva- 
tive business public. It awards cash inducements only 
after the most careful inquiry has shown it to be 
necessary in order to secure some substantial industry 
giving employment to a large number of persons at 
reasonable wages, and not even then unless assured be- 
yond question that the end will justify the means. 
Mr. E. M. Tierney is President of the Board. 



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ARMORY AND POSTOFFICE. 
ildings to which reference should be made 
are the State Ar- 
mory and the 
United States Pub- 
building. The 
Armory occupies 
a plot of ground 
e \ t en ding from 
State street to 
Prospect avenue. 
It was built in L881 
by an appropri- 
ation of §10,000 
from t h e State. 
The County gave 
ie site cost '1112 
s.i 11 10. and the 
wentieth Separate 
ompany cont r i- 
uted $1,500 to 
complete the struct- 
tuilding is 180x80 feet, two stories 
nd is embellished with towers and 
1888 the State built an addition at a 
and appropriated $3,500 to enlarge 
the building con- 



ure. The main 
high, of brick, 
battlements. In 

cost of Sin, 

and modify the main structure, 
tains a very large drill room, elegantly furnished com- 
pany quarters, lockers, parlors, etc. 

The Amory is occupied by the Twentieth Separate 
Company and the Sixth Battery, both of the State 
National Guard. The former is commanded by Cap- 
lain Hiram C. Rogers, and the latter by Captain 
Laurel I, Olmstead. 



THE 



A R I. I N G T O N 



The 

Leading h|otel 

in the city. 








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{<eW and modern. I^ooms With, bath? ar\d en suite. f^ecentl^ enlarged and refurnished. (JonOenien.t to tjje 

business renter and all depots. 

/?ATBS, ^2.00, 32.50 and S.'J.OO. 



Kennedy & Tierney, 



76 



BINGHAMTON PAST AND PRESENT. 



The Federal building, in which are located the city 
postoffice, internal revenue offices, and United States 
court room, is situated on Wall street fronting on the 
Chenango river. It was built in 18S8 under an act of 
Congress appropriating $150,000 for the purpose. 
The structure is of stone, three stories high, and is sur- 
mounted by several handsome towers. An acrimonious 



by virtue of its superb advantages as a haven for the 
indigent members of the order. 

The Commercial Travelers form a numerous and 
powerful body, which is receiving daily large acces- 
sions from the nearly 500,000 traveling salesman in 
this country. By far the greater portion of this vast 
army are employed by houses in the Empire state, 



,, ntrst -icw out of the question of its location, whose hence its selection as the location of their national 
effect is even yet felt in local politics. The building is home. Binghamton alone sends out something like 
an ornament to the city, and is furnished with every six hundred ••drummers," to extol the excellence of 
convenience essential to the purposes for which it was local wares, and they have worn familiar paths over 

every state and 
territory in the 
Union. Of the 
gentlemen \\ ho 
were active in 
secu ring the 
home for Bing- 
hamton none 
did more than 
M r. F. W. 
G rum m o nd, 
his /. e a 1 a n d 
forethought in 
several con- 
ventions doing 
much to win 
the prize. 

The forma- 
tion of t lie 
Com me rcial 
Travelers As- 
sociation of America may he said to date from October 
31, 1891, although the seed had then already been 
sown about -even months. An impromptu meeting of 
commercial travelers was held at Jamestown, N. V.. 
March 12, 1891, at which the subject of building a 
Tin' selection of this city a- the location for the home home for indigent commercial travelers was talked 




si M.H KIIANNA I 

ion s, a n d 

strikes the eye of the stranger as one of the most at 

tractive part- of this beautiful city. 

THE ('. T. A. OK AMERICA. 



EE FOOT OK HA\ 



of tlie Commercial Travelers of the United State- i- an 
honor deserving of more than passing mention. Bing- 
hamton snatched the coveted prize from such compet- 
itors a- Buffalo, Rochester, Jamestown, Auburn, Ithaca, 
Elmira, Syracuse, Utica and Albany, and did it solely 



over. There were present : A. 11. Ellis, .lame-town: 
D. M. Bodle, Binghamton ; O C. Brown, Greenville, 
Pa.; Win. Frier, New Fork ; C. 1'. Olp, Ml. Morris; 
A. II. Calaum, Rutherford, N. .1. : John II. Holmes. 
Brewster, N. Y.:.l. I>. Aldrich, Detroit. Mich.: \V. 



Babcock & Stowell, Persels & Mack, 

anu Hardware. 



Mechanics' Tools, 

Refrigerators 

Ice Cream freezers, 

- LAWR MOWERS * 

Rubber and Cotton Hose, 
Wood and Tile Mantels, 

♦ GAS FIXTURES, ♦ 

Leather and Rubber Belting, 

Wood Split Pullies, 

Bath Tubs, 

Range Boilers, 

Iron Pipe, Pumps, Sinks, 
Paints, Oils and Glass. 

174 Washington and 127 State Sts. 




FINE HAND-MADE HARNESS 






10 Chenango Street. 



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464. 



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Uegge, 



, ESALE FRUIT 



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Confectionery, Crackers and Cigars, 



Candy Specialty. 



aijd (^oiiHUissiou • \Ierchaot, 



LARGEST LINE 

Penny Goods. 



219 Chenango Street, 

. ..... ' ,?-H-# Nelson Block Two s,ree,s Nor,h of Dc p° ,s - 



BINGHAMTON. N. Y. 



B1NGHAMT0N PAST AND PRESENT. 



I I iomas, Rochester, and J. D. Fuller of Jordon, N. 
Y. After a long discussion a temporary organization 
was formed by electing A. H. Ellis, President and .1. 
D. Aldrich, Secretary. A meeting fur organization 
was called bj Mr. Aldrich to be held in Elmira, Oct- 
ober 31, 1891, at which meeting Mr. Aldrich was 
chosen Chairman and Walter 11. Booth, of Hornells- 
v i He, Secretary. 




fred Center; ( '. ( '. Howell, Ithaca. N. V.: A. II. Cal- 
aum, Rutherford, X. J.: 15. Blampied, Elmira, N. Y.: 
Geo. 1'. Lynd, Albany ; Frank S. Hunter. Elmira : D. 
E. Pugh, Elmira; -I. D. Temple, Chicago, III.: W. 
II. Booth, Hornellsville ; .1. I). Aldrich, Detroit ; S. 
H. Springer, Pittston ; A. A. Thomas, Elmira : Wm. 



Jackson, Elmira : Geo. X. Buchanan, Elmira: H. A. 
Kendall, Cleveland. Ohio, and YV. H. Wood, Elmira. 
A committee consisting of Messrs. Aldrich, Howell 
ami Booth were appointed to secure a charter. This 
committee, after consulting with eminent attorneys, 
found that they could not obtain what they were in 
search of under the genera] law. and employed Judge 
Vernon E. Peck- 
ham, of .lames- 
town, to draft a 
hill for presenta- 
tion to the legisla- 
ture asking for a 
special act of in- 
corporation. This 
hill was presented 
at the first session 
of the legislature 
in January, 1892, 
w a s passed and 
signed by the Gov- 
ernor February 

25, 1892, and in 
accordance with 

he hill a meeting 
or permanenl or 
ganization was 
called by the Pres- 
ident for March 

26, following. It. 
was very import- 
ant that this meet 
ing be held at 
some point where 
sufficient interest 
would he taken in 
the association to 

insure a good attendance. Mr. Aldrich after consult- 
ing with the committee and other members, decided 
upon holding the meeting at Binghamton, and the re- 
sult proved the wisdom of his decision. There were 
present about four hundred commercial travelers, and 
one hundred and sixty-seven members, residents of 



HILLS, McLEAN & WILLIAMS, 



kl.KIC- AM> millNMMIM 



Di^ess Qoods, Siltjs, V[illiqeiy, 

t — ' — Lc|ces rind T^icqtuiqgs. 

STYLISH WRAPS AND JACKETS FOR LADIES. MISSES AND CHILDREN. 

Sole Agents for three of the best known makes of KID GLOVES, viz : Maggione, Francesco. Jerome anil genuine Foster. Every pair war- 
ranted and fitted at the counter. 



Silk and Cotton Hosiery. Ladies' Silk, Wool, Lisle and Cotton Und rwear. 

STAMPED LINENS. ART GOODS, YARNS, MUSLIN UNDERWEAR, Etc. 



Also :■ Complete Line of House Furnishings, Consisting .it the Best Mai f 

Carpets. Draperies of every description. Lace and Silk Curtains, Portiers, Upholstery Goods for furniture coverings, Oil Cloths, Mattings, 
Linolium. Rugs, Art Squares. Carpet Sweepers. Ready-Made Sheets and Pillow Cases, Table Linen, Linen 
Suits, Lace Pillow Shams and Spreads to match, Bed Spreads, and 
many other useful articles. 

Hilk Mr I ean & Williams 

imi>, mcLcan oc vvmiaiiio. 



p. f\. BeQSoi?, 

ALEX. E. ANDREWS & SON. ^ iar , os , Orn^, 

Real Estate 
and Insurance, 



, I) III. KIN l>- 111 



56 Court Street, 



Musical .'. Merchandise, 



BINGHAMTON, N. Y. 



Loans on Real Estate I n> CO! RT STREET, 

N itiated. • ♦ • 



# # # m # BINGHAMTON, N. Y. 



80 



BINGHAMTON PAST AXI> PRESENT. 



Binghamton, were added to the list, making a total 
number of charter members at the opening of the con- 
vention of six hundred and forty-four. By-laws pre- 
pared by Judge Peckham together with Mr. Aldrich 
ami Mr. Booth were presented and adopted. The fol- 
lowing officers were elected : President — -lames D. 
Aldrich, Detroit Mich. Vice-Presidents— John M. 
McKinstry, Cleveland, Ohio : P. .1. McCaffery, Scran- 
ton. Pa.: Sanford T. Georgia, Chicago. 111.: William 
Mason, Binghamton, X. Y. ; -lames Southard, Newark, 
N. J.; Orrin Scotten, Detroit, Mich.;W. H. Holmes, 
Boston, Mass. Secretary and Treasurer — Walter H. 
Booth, II or- 
nellsville, N. 
Y. Board of 
Managers — C. 

C. Howell, 
Ithaca, N. Y.: 

D. E. Pugh, 
Elmira, N. Y.: 
F. W. (irum- 
mond. Bing- 
hamton, N.Y. : 
J. F. Henry, 
New York; 
Geo. F. Sweig- 
ert, Scranton, 
P a. : ( '. F. 
Sut he r land, 
Wilkes- P.arre, 
Pa. : Theo. A. 







TITER WASHINGTON STKKI'.T. 



Chicago : Mack Wilson, of Cleveland, (.). ; F. C. Ham- 
ilton, of Evansville, hid.: John E. Roche, of Scranton, 
Pa., and C. C. Gale, of Boston, Mass., were elected, 
and by instructions of the Board of Managers, during 
the summer of 1893 visited the following cities which 
had ottered sites for the home: Ctiea, Rome, Syracuse, 
Auburn. Rochester, Buffalo, Binghamton, Ithaca, El- 
mira, Hornellsville, Mt. Morris, Aurora and Weeds- 
port. The next annual convention was held in Syra- 
cuse, October 10, 1893, at which this committee, 
after careful investigation, made report and unani- 
mously recommended the offer made by the citizens of 

Binghamton of 
one hundred 
acres of land 
and *15,000 
in cash. This 
otter was unan- 
imouslv ac- 
cepted by the 
convention, 
there being 
present over 
twelve hun- 
dred members, 
c o m p osed of 
delegations 
ranging from 
fifty to three 
hundred from 
the different 




White. Binghamton, N. Y. ; Peter Crise, Elmira, N. 
Y. : W. C. Dunham, Alfred Center, N. Y. ; Horace II. 
('adv. Cleveland, (). : A. II. Calaum, Rutherford, N. 
J.; ('. P. Olp, Mt. Morris. N. Y.: W. II. Svkes. 
Allentown, Pa.; B. E. Watson, Syracuse, \. Y.;Geo. 
W. Taylor, Philadelphia, Pa. Trustees of Reserve 
Fund Geo. E. Green, Binghamton, N. Y.: M. F. 
Robson, Elmira, N. Y. ; R. N. Hull, Cleveland, O.; 
W. C. VanBIarcom, Scranton, Pa.: -I. Frank Hart, 
Wilkes-Barre, Pa. The regular annual meeting of the 
Association was held at Rochester, October '.'. L892, at 
which a site committee consisting of D. K. Clink, of 



cities ottering sites. The transfer of the one hundred 
acres of land from the citizens to the Association was 
made May 21, 18H4, and a topographical survey was 
begun June 6, 1894. The corner stone of the first 
building will be laid at the date of the annual meeting 
October It. 1894. The annual income of the Associ- 
ation is now somewhat more than $25,000 and it has 
over $100,000 in the bank for use as desired. It is 
estimated that the Home will cost from $200,000 to 
$300,000. The officers for 1893-4 are as follows: 
President — J. D. Aldrich, Detroit, Mich. Secretary 
and Treasurer — W. H. Booth, Binghamton, \. Y. 



JUNIUS F. BISHOP, 

RrchlleciUreil Wood TiLirninq ol fill Descriptions. 

ft ^ ft 

ALSO, MANUFACTURER OF 

Office Fixtures 

. . . fIND . . . 

FURNITURE. 



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VORKEK 

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ABINGT 

Maker. 


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Factory, No. 20 Lewis St. and 54-56 Prospect Ave., Binghamton, N. Y. 



/T]odern pbarm,aey 



Cor COURT AND WATER STS. 



'—A Complete Line of Drugs 

|— Toilet Articles and Sundries. 

' — All the High Grade Perfumes. 

,— The Prescription Department is Complete. 

'— Soda Water and True Mineral Waters. 

| — Ice Cream Soda with Crushed Fruits. 

'— A Carefully Selected Line of Cigar-. 



Geo. M. Harris, 



40 and 42 COURT STREET, 




5. C. Smith, f[\. D. 



WHOLESALE.-. RETAIL 

HOUSE ESTABLISHED IN 
1852. 






BINGHAMTON PAST AND PRESENT. 



Vice Presidents— William Mason, Binghamtou, N. Y.; 
P. J. McCaffrey, Scranton, Pa.; J. M. McKinstry, 
Cleveland, O.; W. H. Holmes. Boston, Mass.;Oren 
Scotten, Detroit, Mich.; James Southard, Newark, N. 
J.; Charles II. Hinman, Chicago, 111.: L. P. Reinecker, 
Baltimore, Md. Board of Managers, One Year — C. 
C. Howell, [thaca, N. Y.: D. E. Pugh, Elmira, N. Y.; 
Theo. A. White, Binghamton, N. Y. ; W. C. Dunham, 
Alfred Centre, N. Y. ; 
Geo. W. Taylor, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Two Years -John 
DeWitt, New York: 
George F. Sweigert, 
Scranton Pa.; C. F. 
Sutl erland, Wilkes- 
Bar t, Pu.:<\ P. Olp, 
Mt. Morris N. Y.: 
\V. II. Sykes, Allen- 
town, Pa. Th ice 
Years — B. E. Watson, 
Syracuse, N. Y. ; C. 
H. White, Buffalo, N. 
Y.: C. C. Frisbie, El- 
mira, X. Y.:S. I). W. 
Cleveland, Rochester, 
N. Y.:C. C. Gale, Bos- 
ton, Mass. Trustees 
of I! es e r v e Fu nd, 
Three Years— J. 
Frank Hart, Wilkes- 
Barre, Pa.; T. C. 
Northcott, Elmira, X. 
V. Two Years M. 
F. Robeson, Elmira, X. 
Y.;Geo. E. Green, Binghamton, N. V. < hie Year — 
W. ('. VanBlarcom, Scranton, Pa.; Kay Tompkins, El- 
mira, X. Y. Examining Finance Committee— J. II. 
Stitzer, Philadelphia, Pa.; W. A. Coleman, Scranton, 
Pa.; ('. II. Thompson, Binghamton, N. V. The object 
of the Home may be understood from these extracts 
from the by-laws : 

••The objects and purposes of said corporation shall 



eate a fund l>y membership fees and annual 
in its members, with which to provide and 




I AI'.l'.UN \( I I' M 



rje to 
dues f 

maintain a home and hospital within the Slate of Xew 
York, to lie erected by said corporation for the recep- 
tion, care and maintenance and relief of indigent com- 
mercial travelers, who are members of said association 
and their dependent wives, widows and infant children, 
and to build, furnish and maintain in connection there- 
with a school for the 
benefit of said infants ; 
and to provide and fur- 
nish such other and 
further aid and assist- 
ance to the members 
thereof and their fam- 
ilies as may be pro- 
vided by the by-laws 
of this corporation. 
Any commercial trav- 
eler, resident citizen of 
the United States of 
America, of good 
moral character, is eli- 
gible to member-hip. 
All applications for 
membership must be 
accompanied by two 
dollars as membership 
fee. and one dollar to 
pay annual due- for 
current fiscal year, and 
he endorsed by one or 
more members of the 
association. Any per- 
son eligible to member- 
ship may become a lite member on the recommendation 
of the board of managers and the payment of forty 
dollars to the treasurer, which shall he in lieu of all 
future dues and assessments. Upon receipt of an ap- 
plication duly endorsed by one or more members and 
accompanied by a fee of not Less than twenty-five dol- 
lars, the hoard of managers may. at any regular or 
special meeting, by a two thirds vote of the members 



in frch. 



C. A. BAYER, 



Matthews & Pratt 



ii (:o(i i't S^'cct- 



$ :: 




e Real Estate, 



Fire Insurance 









and Loans 



I am prepared to fit any foot in the above shoe 
in French;- Patent or Russia Calf. 
(\ most complete and stylish assortment of 
Ladies'. Gents' and Children's Footwear. 

GIVE ME A CALL 



House and Lots, Vacant Lots, Business 
Property and Farms in all parts of the city 
and county for sale and exchange. 



43 COURT ST., 

BINGHAMTON, N. Y. 
Walter P. Pratt. 



Geo. A. Matthew> 



EST ARI.ISill KI > I840 



ROBT. HBATH, 



BARNES & CONGDON 

Manufacturers of 
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M * 

I Marble 
iE| and Granite [jj? 
a Monuments, a 

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Connected with the Leading American Quarries. 

Barnes Block, 94 and 96 Chenango Street 

BINGHAMTON, N. Y. 



MACHINIST 











GOOD FACILITIES FOR 






GENERAL MACHINE WORK. 
















MANUFACTURER OF 






Screw-Cutting Lathes 






FOR FOOT POWER. 



227 Water Street, Binghamton, N. Y. 



BINGHAMTON J 'AST AND PRESENT. 



present, elect such applicant an honorary member. 
The person so elected shall be entitled to none of the 
benefits or privileges nor liable for any dues or assess- 
ments of active members." 

The site given by the citizens of Binghamton oc- 
cupies an eminence directly South of the city and 
Wesl of Ross Park. It is about one and a half miles 
from the Court house, and commands a view scarcely 
[ess picturesque than that obtained from the summit of 
the Park grounds. The two rivers and their valleys 
Btretch to the North, East and West, while the city 
lies peacefully below. 




BRIDGES. 

Five bridges con- 
nect the three sections 
into which the city is 
divided by the Sus- 
quehanna and Chen- 
ango rivers. The lar- 
gest i- a plate girder 
bridge spanning the 
Chenango between 
Court and Main 
streets. It cost near- 
ly $90,000, and is 
100 feet long. The 
uppermost bridge 
spans the Susquehanna 
above the Rockbottom 

STONE OI'K 

dam. It is a three 

span iron structure 540 feel between shore abutments. 
Another mammoth iron structure connects Washington 
with DeRussey streets. This is Too feet long and cost 
between §40,000 and $50,000 eight years ago. The 
Chenango is also crossed bj a suspension bridge at the 
fiint of KeiT\ street, affording communication with the 
tine resilience quarter called Dwightville, in honor of 
it- promotor, the late Col. Walton W. Dwight. It is 
' between its cable towers. A foot bridge con- 
nects the Southern part of the citj with the center at 
the foot of Exchange street. 



CITY SUB-DIVISIONS. 

The city is divided, for convenience of direction, in- 
to a number of localities. They are North Side, West 
End, Dwightville, Riverside, Rossville, Millville and 
Fairview. The North Side comprises all that teeming 
and progressive part lying North of the railways, and 
boasts of a population of more than 8,000 souls. It is 
traversed longitudinally by North Chenango street, 
from which extend a large number of handsome resi- 
dence avenues. Chenango street is second in commer- 
cial importance only to Court street, and is paved 
almost its entire 
length of a mile and a 
half with Trinidad As- 
phalt. Its Northern 
terminus is the North 
line of the city, and 
thence continues an 
unbroken succession 
of pretty v i 1 1 a s to 
Port Dickinson, three 
miles from the city 
Court house. The 
whole distance is 
threaded by a branch 
of the Binghamton 
electric street car 
system. 

The West End is 
perphaps the mosl 
beautiful residence 
part of the city. It 
is also comparatively new. the greater part of it having 
been settled within half a dozen years. It extends 
almosl to Lestershire, a thrifty suburb situated nearly 
three miles from the center of the city. 

Riverside is the name bestowed upon a handsome 
avenue following along the Northern bank of the Sus- 
quehanna river below the city. It is occupied by a 
superior class of dwellings and is undoubtedly destined 
in become one of the must charming divisions. 

Rossville embraces that portion of the city lying 
South of the Susquehanna river tributary ti> DeRussey 



Real Estate. 



If You Want to Buy, Sell or Exchange Property 
in City or Country, Call on 



D, P. STRATTON, 



392 CMENANGO STREET, 



INGHAMTON, r\J. V. 



o •> -v * o o <■ 



Fire and Life Insurance. 



Money to Loan 



In Large or Small Sums. 



3 e 



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NICELY FITTED WITH 



ISAAC LAUDER & SON, 

Marble 
anJ Granite Works. 

Manufacturers ..i All Kinds .if 

Marble and Granite Monuments, Headstones, fid 

Estimates Given on All Kinds of Cemetery Work. 
NO. 61 ELDREDGE STREET. 

Binghamton, N. Y. 



I ♦SHOES ♦ 

For Dress or Business 

■ 

H. A. NICHOLS, 

31 COURT STREET. 

w _ 

r^raije -X | ockWood, 

PALACE QUEEN FURNACE 




Ar)d Happy Thought Range 

ALSO, OIL AND GASOLINE STOVES. 

Jobbing 

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BUTOH^-MTOIT, ST. "ST. 



86 



BINGHAMTON PAST AND PRESENT. 



street. It is named for its chief patron, Mr. Erastus 
Ross, who has large interests there. Rossville is :i 
rapidly growing section and is very desirable as it com- 
mands a fine view of the city and the two uniting 
river.-;. It will be the terminus of the State Line rail- 
way previously referred to. 

Dwightvillc liesNorth of the Chenango river almost 
opposite the main business part of the city. It is com- 
posed of many pretty cottages and is devoted wholly 
t<> home purposes. 

Fairview includes that delightful section of territory 
lvine- between the Eastern line of the older city and the 
possessions of the 
State Hospital. It 
contain- a large 
chair factory, 
wagon factory, a 
carriage hardware 
manufactory, and 
is mainly I milt up 
by the cosy homes 
of those employed 
in them. 

Millville is BO 
called because it i< 
the site of several 



support being the mammoth boot and shoe factory es- 
stablished by the Messrs Lester of this city. The 
village contains a brush factory and other minor inter- 
ests, and is undoubtedly destined, like Port Dickinson, 
to ultimate union with Binghamton. An electric rail- 
way gives frequent and rapid transit to and from the 
place 



• g e 



manufact- 




ories, including a 
tannery, < 
factories, planing 
mill, sa w m il 1. 
.•hair factory, etc 

Port Dickinson is the name of a small village named 
after Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson. It contains a popu- 
lation of about seven hundred, and lies nearly three 
miles to the North of the city, being connected there- 
with by electric railway. It is virtually part of the 
city. Many persons doing business in Binghamton 
reside there. 

Of more recent birth and much more rapid growth 
is the village of Lcstcrshire, whose Eastern boundary 
i> the Western line of the city. It is also about three 

miles from the city and numbers about 1..' persons. 

Lestershire was founded by ('•. Harry Lester, its chief 



THE SOLDIERS- MONUMENT. 

An imposing monument commemorating the services 
of the soldiers and sailors, of Broome County, who 
fell during the war 
of the Rebellion, 
was erected on the 
Court house 
square and dedi- 
c a t c d on the 
Fourth of July, 
1888. The mon- 
ument is of gran- 
ite and is composed 
of a base fifteen 
feet front by 
eleven feet wide 
and two feet high, 
w ith a sub base 
and plinth of cor- 
responding pro- 
portions. Above 
this is a die eight 
feet long, six feet wide and three feet ten inches high, 
surmounted by a massive cap with carved corbells at 
either end which support bronze statues representing 
a soldier and a sailor. Standing on the center of this 
coping is a stately obelisk four feet square at the base 
and twenty-two feet high, with two projecting belts in- 
scribed with battle names. Crowning the shaft is a 
beautifully carved Corinthian cap of about five tons 
weight, surmounted by a granite statue representing 
the Goddess of Liberty holding a sabre in one hand 
ami a shield and laurel wreath in the other. This 
statue is eight feet in height and is a model of beauty. 



Stanley N. Mitchell 



S. N. Saxton. 



W. L. Hernck 



SAXTON & MERRICK 



GENERAL 



Insurance and Real Estate 



ROSS BUILDING, 




Binghamton, 



NEW YORK. 



II F. IAPY 



I; S i OTTOS 



*•,••] 



r== i ; =.= • *£ 



46 COURT STREET. 

GEO. h. HARDING, 



BINGHAMTON 



\1 ,\ N I : 1 A i rUREF 



Produce Co. 1 1 ILIM 



lilLMla 






Wholesale Dealers in 



9 1 



: | GROUND BONE, 

Ifflg Fnd. Gathered E ffiS| | CHICKEN FOOD, 

] TALLOW AND GREASE, 



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And Dealer in- 



»&^~ BUTTER, CREESE, 

HAY, STRAW, FEED, FLOUR, &c. Hides, Calf Skins, Pelts and Furs, 



(Boods §old on Commission. 



187 \)Oatep §t., 8ir?gr->anr-)t.or->, ty. GJ, 



Office, 205 Water St. Factory, Vestal Ave. 



BINGHAMTON, N. Y. 



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BINGEAMTON PAST AND PRESENT. 



The entire monument, from base to crowning point. 

measures fifty feet, and comprises 1.: cubic feet of 

granite, weighing over one hundred tons. On the 
plinth beneath the die is the following inscription : 
•■This monument is the tribute of Broome County to 
her brave sons who served in defense of the Union." 
It was estimated that 40,000 people witnessed the dedi- 
cation of the monument. 



work. Applicants must have been residents of Broome 
County for not less than three years. Two hundred 
dollars admits one to a "life membership and assure a 
comfortable home. The management is vested in a 
Board of Trustees composed of ten ladies and live 
gentlemen, and an Assistant Board of twenty-five 
ladies. The corporation owns handsome buildings and 
several acre- of land in the Eastern part of the city. 



THE CITY HOSPITAL. 

•ity has recently elected to appropriate $25, 

hospital for the care of the injured 




THE FRATERNAL ORDERS. 
Binghamton has ever been prominent in the advance- 
ment of social and fraternal orders, it taking rank as 
one of the leading 
cities in the United 
States in the num- 
ber of its Bed 
Men, Odd Fel- 
I o ws, M a sons, 
Knights of Pyth- 
ias, etc. The 
Masons are divided 
into two powerful 
lodges. Malta 
Comm andery, 
Knights Templar, 
is famous as the 
largest and best 
disciplined c o m- 
mandery in the 
state. It contains 
m o r e than five 
hundred mem- 
he r s. There is 










rREET CORNKR OK COl'RT. 



are among Binghamton's 

best citizens, are non-partisan and have always proven 
themselves aide, conscientious men. 



AGED WOMEN'S HOME. 

About two years ago there was opened to the public 
-.i Home for the can' of aged and indigent women not 
chronic invalids, and not under sixty years of age. 
This project was conceived by a number of benevolent 
ladies, and it already gives promise of much good 



also a Chapter and six other Masonic auxiliaries, the 
whole embracing more than two thousand persons. 

The Odd Fellows number in their various lodges, 
encampment, canton, etc., about one thousand mem- 
bers. Their uniformed degree is handsomely equipped. 

The Improved Order of Red Men comprises seven 
tribes, live degrees of Pocahontas and a Chieftains 
League, the whole numbering nearly 1,700 persons. 
The Chieftains League is handsomely attired in conti- 
nental uniform. 

In addition to the foregoing there are well estab- 



T. I.LACEY&SON, I 



Architects, 



81 and 83 State Street, 




s .e.»ON^ 



>#< 



BINGHAMTON, N. Y. 

Dicqe r>qi}l' ( 13t|ildir|£, 

The Harlow Music Store 



CITY ENGINEER, 



*'' n 9h„ yo^' 

°°noton, NesAi ^ 




n «* 



PIANOS. 



ORGANS 



DECKED BROS., PACKARD, 

.1. & C. FISCHER, MASON A HAMLIN. 

VOSE A sons. CROW] 

And Others. And Others 



Sheet Music, Books, Etc. 

ALSO 

The Domestic, Household and Whitf 
Sewing Machines. 



BICYCLES. 

urges! Stock, Low Prices, Cash i 



HARLOW & CO., 94 State St. 




SI 






U - 

■.■ 






B1NGIIAMT0N PAST AND PRESENT. 



lished branches of the Knights of Pythias, Royal Ar- 
canum, Iron Hall, Knights of the Mystic Chain, 
Ancient Order of Hibernians, Catholic Knights of 
America, and many purely labor organizations. The 
American Protective Association has also quite a num- 
erous contingent in the city. 



BROOME COUNTY'S SOLDIERS. 

A history of the city would be incomplete without a 
record of the brave men who shouldered arms at the 
outbreak of the late Rebellion and enlisted in the ser- 
vice of t h e 
I'ni on. In 
this, as in all 
else, the city 
was not un- 
mindful of its 
duty. Scores 
of brave fel- 
1 o w s left 
t li e i r bones 
to bleach un- 
der a South- 
ern sun, while 
- more 
attest with 
c r u t c h or 
h a n g i n g 
sleeve the 
serious pa it 
they took in 

thai great struggle for national unity. Memorial day 
is therefore a day fraught with heart-breaking re- 
flections in hundreds of homes in Broome County. 

Directly after the proclamation of President Lincoln 

calling for 75, I troops, an office was opened here by 

Col. Jacob C. Robie for enrolling volunteers. Three 
companies were -non formed which became Companies 
('. I> and F in the 27th Regiment, New York Vol- 
unteers, commanded by Col. Henry \V. Slocum. 
Col. Slocum became a General before the close of the 
war. The regiment was mustered in. beginning May 



KKVNOI.DS, ltuoi'.ns ,v LAY s lACTOUY 1'KuM MSI'KNsIoN IlKIDOK 



21st, 1S61, for two years service. Joseph J. Bartlett 
was the first Captain of Company C, but he was made 
Major at Elmira and attained to the rank of Brigadier 
General for gallant service before the end of the con- 
flict. Company C was mustered in with Edward L. 
Lewis, Captain, and the following roster of commis- 
sioned and non-commissioned officers : Chas. A. Wells, 
Lieutenant ; Geo. A. Hurd, Ensign ; Eugene M. Davis, 
Geo. W. Dunn, James M. Watson and John E. Ronk, 
Sergeants ; Eri S. Watson, F. L. Gleason, T. M. 
Leonard and Martin II. Adams, Corporals ; Samuel D. 
Crumb and Lewis W. Chichester, Musicians. There 

were sixty - 
s i x privates 
in the com- 
pany. 

C o m p any 
D was com- 
manded by 
Captain (aft- 
erward Gen- 
e rali Hiram 
C. Rogers; 
Henry C. 
.1 a c k s o n, 
Lieutenant; 
Asa Park, 
Ensign ; W. 
H. Bertram, 
Geo. Wil- 
liamson, Ed- 
ward C o in- 
stock, Albert G. Northrup, Sergeants : Wm. W, 
Spencer, .John L. Bailey, Chas. B. Fairchild and Ed- 
ward M. Watson, Corporals : Wm. J. Rundell and 
Chas. Yanllorn. Musicians. Ninety-six men made up 
the rank and file of the company. Peter Jay became 
Captain of Company F, with Wm. A. Sheldon, Lieu- 
tenant: Lafayette Cross, Ensign, and the following 
lisl of Sergeants : D. 1'. Benedict, Frank E. Northrup, 
Luther N. Hubbard and Joseph L. Ross. Corporals: 
Ceo. II. Roman, Frederick Randall, Harvey D. Whit- 
ing and John C. June. Musician, Franklin French. 




Reynolds, 
Rogers 
& Lay, 



MANUFACTURERS OF:'W 



The Commercial Travelers' Home Cigar, 



I \( ■Ti»i:\ on oi'i'osiTK l'A(.i; 



fpr?e Commercial travelers' |tome Association of America ♦ 

• • • Hrrfiuro ©ne Dollar [$1.00] pep thousand 
from Reynolds, I^ogers § bay, of Birvfr^amton, \i. *$., for 
ever^J thousand [1,000] (;i|ars sold under tfyis brand 

• • • Gvery purchaser of one of tr/ese (M^ars is a con- 
tributor to ©ur {romp. 



'"THE ceremonies of laying the corner stone of the Commercial Travelers' Home of America, will 



occur October 9th. 



All Comrrjercial Travelers Are Cordially Invited to Attend 






B1NGEAMT0N PAST AND PRESENT. 




There were seventy-two privates in the company. 

In Decern l>er of the opening year of the struggle the 
89th Regiment, New York Volunteers, was mustered 
into the service. Companies B, F, G, H and K were 
composed of men very largely taken from Broome 
Count v. The regiment was commanded by Col. Har- 
rison S. Fairchild. Company I? numbered eighty six 
men and were under the command of Capt. James 
Hazley ; Nathan A. Newton, and Chauncey J. Reed, 
Lieutenants. Robert 
Brown was Captain of 
Company II : Moses 
Til tier and Win. N. 
Benedict, First and 
Second Lieutenants. 
Company < 1 was com- 
manded by Captain 
Seymour L. .1 udd ; 
Edward M. Bloomer 
and Frederick Haven- 
port. Li e u t enants. 
Companies II and K 
were commanded by 
Captains John l'>. Van 
Name and Frank Hurt, 
respectively. 

Another regiment 
largely recruited from 
Broome < !ounty which 
did valiant ser v ice 
during the war was 
the L09th, Col. Ben- j 
jamin !■'. Trac\ . com I 
man. I'm-. Col. Tracy 

was promoted to ( .en sisson bros. & \ 

eral, ami became Secretary of the Navy in President 
Harrison's cabinet. Isaac S. Catlin was Lieutenant 
''"'"'"'I of the L09th, Philo 1'.. Stilson, Major and 
Peter \Y. Hopkins. Adjutant. Company D was com- 
! bj ('apt. Geo. W. Dunn, with Win. Benedicl 
■'""' 1; - H. Johnson, Lieutenants. Company E was 
commanded by Captain Edward L. Lewis. There was 
a liberal sprinkling of Broome County volunteers in 



other companies of this regiment. There was also a 
strong local color in the personnel of the gallant 137th, 
Col. David Ireland commanding. Company A was 
commanded by Capt. Frederick A. Stoddard, with 
Geo. C. Owen, First Lieutenant : F. M. Hallock, 
Second Lieutenant. The full official staff was as fol- 
lows : Sergeants — R. B. Mirriam, D. E. Vinning, W. 
E. Robinson, Wm. Humphrey and Spencer Clark. 
Corporals — James Watrous, Jacob C. Butcher, S. D. 
Merrihew, Leonard 



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Durham, Peter Vos- 
burg, Lucian Vinning, 
C. Neff and .John J. 
Boker. The .Musici- 
ans were C. B. Taft 
and Levi Pierce. 
Company B of the 
same regiment was 
officered by Henry H. 
Davis, Captain : Asa 
C. Gale and Owen J. 
Sweet, Lieutenants. 
Company L's Captain 
was Milo 1>. Eldredge, 
Cornelius E. D un n 
was First Lieutenant, 
and Geo. J. Spencer. 
Second Lieutenant. 
These three com- 
panies of the 109th 
Regimenl con t a ined 
nearly 300 men. 
Company F, Henry 
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Sage and Marshall Corbett, Lieutenants, numbered 88 
men. The 161st Regiment, although made up chiefly 
by volunteers from other parts of the state, contained 
about fifty Broome County residents, among whom 
may be mentioned John P. Worthing, First Lieuten- 
ant of Company G, and John Jay, Second Lieutenant 
of the same company. Men from this county were 
also enrolled in the L68th Regiment, the L79th, the 



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50th Regiment of Engineers, the Dickinson Light 
Artillery, Independent Battery, No. 16, the 51st Regi- 
ment, the 144th, 155th, 194th and the Ira Harris 
Guards cavalry. The last named organization con- 
tained the following well known names : officers roster, 
Company (i — E. P. McKinney, Second Lieutenant; 
Chas. II. Cannon, First Sergeant; Asabel Maynard, 
Chas. B. Harris and Com. Berrey, Sergeants; Henry 
Applegate, Asa Grurnsey, Oscar Stoutenburg; Carlton 
i\ Taylor, dames F. 
Pet tit, d ero m e 15. 
W ood and Geo. P. 
Tyler. Corporals; Will. 
C. Colt, C. Q. M. S.; 
Lewis II. Allen, Bu- 
gler, and Ceo. Miner, 
Wagoner. 

T li e w or k f r om 
w hich the foregoing in- 
formation is taken was 
compiled by Edward 
K. Clark, Esq., and 
given as an appendix 
to his addendum to the 
Annals of Binghamton 
in 1872. Ii is also 
noted in the same work 
that less than a hun- 
dred men responded to 
the call for t roops 
made under the act of 
( longress of March 3rd, 
1863. Under this act 
a draft was made in 
the 26th Congressional 
District on the 17th day of duly at Owego. The draft 
in Broome County was made under the supervision of 
Cap! E. C. Kattell, Provosl Marshall fortius district 
and President of the Board of Enrollment, the other 
members of the hoard being dames N. Eldredge and 
Dr. Samuel I;. Foster. The law permitted drafted 
persons to commute by paying $300, this sum reliev- 
ing them from obligation to serve during the three 
year- for which they were taken. Those enrolled 




were attached to the several regiments already enum- 
erated, the larger number, however, being assigned to 
Company E, 76th Regiment, New York -Volunteers, 
and the 64th New York Infantry. 

This call for troops was so unsatisfactory that on the 
1 7th of the then following October the President called 
for 300, Oho soldiers, the plan being to encourage en- 
listment by offering a bounty. The Broome County 
Board of Supervisors held a special meeting on Dec- 
ember 14 and 15, 1863, 
and adopted a resolu- 
tion directing the 
County Treasurer to 
pay |300 as a bounty 
to every volunteer en- 
listing pursuant to the 
October call. There 
w a s a generous r e- 
sponse from every part 
of the county, more 
than 500 being added 
to Broome's already 
1 a r g e representation 
among the country's 
defenders. 

President Lincoln 
issued another call on 
February 1. L864, 
500, ( 100 additional 
soldiers being required. 
The County Board of 
Supervisors met on the 
5th of the month and 
again voted an appro- 
priation of $300 to 
every person enlisting. Nearly 300 responded and 
were paid $30,000. The President's call for 200,000 
troops on March 15, 1864 was provided for without a 
special meeting of the Board. On the 18th of duly 
following there was another call for 500,000 troops, 
and again the county legislature met and declared that 
it would pay out of the county treasury $300 per man 
to all enlisting. About 400 men stand credited to th 
county under this call, but able bodied men had be- 



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come scarce, and al a special meeting of the Supervisors 
on January 13, 1865, a resolution was adopted giving 
a bounty of 1700 to each soldier enlisting for three 
years, $600 for two year men and $500 for those en- 
listing one year. About 200 men were thus obtained. 
Although the record is of necessity incomplete, 
enough is obtainable to show that between 3,000 and 
4 000 men served in the various departments of the 
army and navy from this county alone. All served 
faithfully, and the regiments to which they were at- 
tached won dis- 




llion were 

only of the 
cility on the 
iur army or 
f heroic de- 
he more 



blackesl treachery, hut of amazing in 
pari of certain officers then serving i 
navy, these were relieved by instance! 
votion to the Union and it> flag, which wer 
admirable became passive and therefore unnoted and un- 
known. Among those may he reckoned the preserve 
lion to the Union of Fori McHenry al Baltimore by 
Captain since Major General) John C. Robinson, 5th 



Infantry, who. with a handful of men, held that im- 
portant position during the four weeks whieh separated 
the bloody triumph of the rebel mob in the slaughter 
of the Massachusetts men (April 19, 1861) from the 
bloodless recovery of Baltimore by General Butler, 
May 13. Had the fort, with its arms and munitions 
been given up by its defenders, its possession, with 
that of Baltimore, could only have been secured by a 
lavish outlay of effort and of blood on the part of the 
Union." Binghamton has three Grand Army Posts, 

Watrous, Wal- 
ton Dwight and 
Joseph .1. Bart- 
lettPost. Wat- 
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William S. day. 
Walton Dwight 
y H. P. Mul- 
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Post by Dr. 
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time to time, it may not prove uninteresting to note 
some of the tales that are told in connection with its 
early historical or semi- legendary period. The spot 
upon which the city stands, although a beautiful one in 
itself and in its surroundings, would not seem to have 
been thought desirable as a habitation by the Indians. 
This may possibly be explained by the fact that the 
point of confluence of the two rivers has been so re- 
cently reclaimed from the waters. There is no lack of 
proof that both the Susquehanna and Chenango rivers 
were exceedingly large streams at no very remote date, 
the whole territory lying between House's hill and 
South mountain on the South, and Mount Prospect on 
the North be- 
ing submerged. 
Shells are even 
now frequently 
found imbeded 
in the rocky 
ledges on both 
these ranges of 
hills. The rapid 
r e c e s si o n of 
waters during 
the last few 
centuries, and 
notably since 
the disappear- 
ance of forests, 
U ndoubted 1 y 
laid bare the ENTRANCE TO 

bottom of the valley at too recent a period to make it 
desirable tor occupency at the time of its discovery by 
the whites. 

The Chenango river has its rise in Madison county 
and is about ninety miles long. The stream contains 
no rapids but (lows along smoothly between verdant 
hills until it joins the Susquehanna at Binghamton. 
Ili'- Susquehanna rises in Otsego lake, a beautiful body 
of water made historical by Feuimorc Cooper's charm 
ing -lories of Indian life, and empties into Chesapeake 
bay. Its course lies through a broken, irregular 
country. After leaving ii> parent lake it winds in a 
Southerly direction until it receives the Unadilla, then 



bears more Southerly to the Great Bend, after which 
it turns to the North-east until within about five miles 
of Binghamton, from which it flows due West to 
Owego. It winds and rewinds among the mountains 
of Northern Pennsylvania, scarcely half a mile in a 
straight line, in a Southerly course by way of Towanda 
to Pittston, thence South-west through the Wyoming 
valley to Harrisburg, thence in almost a direct course 
to the bay. The stream is broken by many small 
rapids which serve to make it (innavigable. 

Although the Indians had no village upon or near 
the site of the present city, the locality was not un- 
known to their war cry. The fierce roving bands 
which ravaged 
the earl}' settle- 
in e n t s to the 
South and West 
and the E a s t 
m a d e this a 
prominent stop- 
i ng place in 
their peregrina- 
tions. A de- 
t a c h m e n t of 
troops under 
Genera] .lames 
Clinton also en- 
camped here for 
several days 
while on their 

BENNETT PARK. way „, j om the 

command of General Sullivan, who was fighting the 

Six Nations for supremacy during the war for colonial 
independence. How the tribes of the Six Nations 
were pledged to neutrality, broke faith and abetted the 
English are matters familiar to every student of col- 
onial history. Their massacres at Cautega, Cherry 
Valley, Minnesink and Wyoming have often been told 
in song and story. 

Congress finding it necessary to grapple with them 
in earnest -cut Gen. Sullivan against them with a force 
of about .'..oiio men, composed of three divisions, the 
New York line being under Gen. Clinton. Gen. Sulli- 
van and two divisions left Wyoming on the 31st Of 




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July, 177'.', and moved up the Susquehanna river in 
flat boats. The baggage of the army was carried on 
2,000 horses and in 120 boats. The boats were pro- 
pelled and often partly carried up the shallow waters 
by soldiers with strong poles, the horses marching in 
single tile along the Indian paths on the banks. The 
divisions halted at Tioga Point for the remainder of the 
army, which was then at Otsego lake under Gen- 
Clinton preparing means of transportation down the 
Susquehanna. Clinton built a dam across the outlet of 
the lake until 
it rose several 
feet, where- 
upon by tear- 
ing it away he 
was enabled to 
tloat his ord- 
nance, stores 
and troops on 
the swell down 
the stream. 
The delay 
caused by cut- 
ing his way 
t h rou gh the 
woods from 
Fort Plain to 
the lake, and 
the building of 
the dam, made 
Clinton's ar- 
rival at Tio^a RESIDENCE OF ERASTUS ROSS, F 

Poinl too late for active service againsl the Indians at 
that place. The enemy had gathered in large numbers 
and attacked (Jen. Sullivan with savage ferocity. 
I hey were repeatedly repulsed with great loss, the 
<V'iA^ of the gallant army under Sullivan being familiar 
to every school boy. A splendid shaft now marks the 
spol where the decisive conflicl took place after the 
arrival of Clinton, in which the famous Indian chief 
Joseph Branl and hi- Torj ally, ('-I. Butler were 
signally routed. After Gen. Sullivan had waited for 
Clinton some time at Tioga Point he -cut an officer and 




eight men up the Susquehanna to learn of his where- 
abouts. The little detachment lost one of its mem- 
bers while camping at what is now called "the Point," 
near the Northern end of the Washington street bridge. 
He was struck down by sickness. The mission of the 
little band was two important to admit of delay, and 
as they could not safely encumber themselves with a 
helpless companion, they built him a cabin among the 
trees, left him a quantity of provisions and proceeded 
on their journey. The ruins of the cabin and a small 

q u a n t i t y of 
bones after- 
ward certified 
to the fate that 
befel him. 

T he me n 
found Clinton 
at the head 
waters of the 
Susquehanna, 
but they were 
so enfeebled 
by their long 
march through 
the woods, and 
scanty provis- 
ions that they 
could not re- 
turn for some 
time after their 
arrival. After 

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came more uneasy and sent a detachment of about "00 
men to join him. This large company came up the 
river on the Owego side and met Gen. Clinton about 
half way between Binghamton and Union. Another 
chronicler has it that the force joined Clinton's army 
while it lay encamped on the present site of Bingham- 
ton. It is not impossible that both accounts arc cor- 
rect. One of Gen. Sullivan's detachment, John Rush, 
Several descendants of whom are among the living, and 
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THREE INDIAN STORIES. 

In September of the year in which the foregoing 
events took place Lieutenant William Boyd and twenty- 
one men left General Sullivan's army as it lay en- 
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This was 
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river directly hack of Weed's tannery 
formerly a large island, the river flowing < 
where the tannery now stands. 

On his way down the river Gen. Clinton destroyed 
a large Indian settlement at Oquaga and several smaller 
nearby villages. The finding of cannon ball- and 
pieces of broken arms on the South side of the river at 
Hooper woul 
indicate that: 
skirmish alsi 



It lays near the North bank of the Susquehanna trated some distance into the woods without discover- 
ing any trace of hostile forces and were about to re- 
turn into camp when they were surprised by Brant 
and Butler with nearly a thousand Indians and white 
renegades. Thirteen of the band were killed, six es- 
caped and two, Boyd and one Parker, were taken 
prisoners by Col. Butler and condemned to death. Boyd 
requested an interview with Brant and it was granted. 

What took 
place between 
t h e m is not 
known, but 
Brant immedi- 
ate 1 y g a v e 
cider that 
Boyd's life 
m u s t be 
spared. They 
w e r e t h e n 

transported to 

an Indian vil- 
lage called 
Beard st w n. 
Soon after their arrival there Brant was called away 
and the prisoners were given into the custody of But- 
ler. He interrogated them as to the number of Sulli- 
van's forces, l>ut they, undoubtedly relying on Brant's 




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he fateful 



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musketry almost without cessation dur 
summer of 1 779. 

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triumphs won over I'.iant and Puller during the month 
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movement of Clinton's division is of local interest be- 
cause it led through familiar territory, and is related 
in detail because it affords the only historical con 



ation. Butler then turned them over to the Indians 
with instructions to torture the coveted information 

out of them. An Indian chief called Little Beard im- 
mediately took charge of them. Lieutenant Boyd was 
first stripped of his clothing, bound to a tree and 



nection of which any authentic record exists binding the cruelly hacked with knives and tomahawks, but with 

placed our own home- and friends to those stirring invincible courage he refused to reveal ought as to 

events out of which grew our national unity and in- Sullivan'- strength or movements. Failing to loosen 

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made a small incision in Boyd's abdomen, took out an very beautiful. Be that as it may the warm blood of 
intestine fastened it to a sapling, unbound him and the Frenchman was inflamed to passion for her. Not- 
wiili scourges drove him around until his intestines withstanding the old chieftain's warning that Minola 
were entirely drawn from his body. Being still alive was pledged in marriage to Wannetta, a young war- 
he was beheaded and left unburied on the ground, rior then off on the war-path, Durand was persistent 
Parker was compelled to witness the frightful agonies in his attentions to the Indian girl and ultimately 
of his companion and then was also beheaded. Lieu- married her. All might have been well had not Wan- 
tenant Boyd was buried at what is now (iroveland, netta returned a few days after the ceremony. It need 
near the bank of Beard's creek under a clump of wild not be said that he was enraged to find his promised 
plum decs, and his grave may be seen there to this bride and a hated paleface occupying the same wig- 
<lav. Several of his 




relatives were among 
the pioneer residents 
of this city, and their 
descendants are quite 
prominently identi- 
fied with its later 
history. 

ii. 
Soonafter the chiefs 
of the Six Nations 
allied themselves with 
the British, a Captain 
dames Durand was 
sent to Joseph Brant 
on some diplomatic 
mission. Durand was 
of French birth and 
had proved himself 
to be a trusty and 
capable officer while 
in ( llinton's command 

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subordinate chiefs were still fresh from their great 
council at Oswego when the intrepid Durand appeared 
among them, and they were not disposed to listen to 
him. Indeed, it appeal's that soon after hi> coming 
the entire force set out upon that errand of murder 
ami rapine which to this day cannot be recounted with- 



■hildren and grandchildren Hi 
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that Durand had vio- 
lated the hospitality 
of the tribe and de- 
served to die. Pro- 
ceeding in a body to 
his cabin hi' was 
seized, bound, fast- 
ened to a stake and 
burned to death. 
Minola was never 
afterward reconciled 
to the ways of her 
people, and soon left 
them to live among 
the more civilized 
whites. She is said 
to have joined the 
little settlement at 
"Chenango Point,*' 
where she gave birth 
to a boy whose 
ire in local history. 



ing of 1780 there floated down the Sus- 
quehanna to the mouth of the Chenango a licet of 
Indian canoe- containing nearly fifty warriers and 
seven Tories under command of Capt. Brant. They 



out a shudder. It was Durand's misfortune to be had eleven prisoners who were taken immediately after 
quartered at the wigwam of an old Mohawk chief the burning of Harpersfield in Delaware county. One 
whose granddaughter, Minola, is said to have been of the prisoners was Captain Alexander Harper. Pass- 



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u\'S across the mouth of the Chenango river the little 
flotilla anchored under the magnificent grove of Elms 
skirtinc what was until recently known as Lovers 
Grove. When the camp fires were burning their 
brightest the fierce notes of the Indian war dance 
broke from the grove, and for an houi- the Indians 
amused themselves by hurling knives and tomahawks 
at the heads of the prisoners as they stood hound to 
the trees. Several of the captives were severely wound 
ed by inexpert warriors ; it was evidently not their in- 
tention to injure any of them. The marks of the 
k n i v e s a 



succeeded by five judges before the formation of 
Broome into a separate county. The records were kept 
part of the time at Binghamton, Elmira and Owego. 

According to the old-time limits Chenango county 
embraced all the track running from the Chenango 
river to Port Deposit. The first town meeting was 
held at Oquago, Nathan Lane was chosen Supervisor 
and George Harper Town Clerk. 

Broome county comprised the territory bounded on 
the North by Cortland and Chenango counties, on the 
East by Delaware county, on the South by the Penn- 




Lccording 
the narrative of 

1 III i' IHNSON RESIDEN< 

Mr. W dkinson 

the district now composing Br ne, Tioga and ( he 

mnng counties was cut oil from Montgomery county 
in 17'.' I. and named Tioga county. Binghamton and 
Elmira, then called Newton and Chenango Point, re- 
spectively, were constituted half shire-. Jonathan 
Fitch and Joshua Mercereau being appointed judges. 
The first court was organized by Morgan Lewi-, who 
afterward became Governor of the state. Ii was held 
a! the residence of Warren Spaulding near Union, hut 
was afterwards removed to Binghamton. The first 
ippointed was Gen. John Patterson, lie was 



lage than Binghamton or as it was then call, d Chenango 

Point. It seemed prohal.le that it would 1..' the center 

ot en ilization foi this section, not onlj on account of 
its age and prestige, hut because there was far more 
wealth there and in that vicinity. The superior loca 
tion of what is now know as Binghamton, finally, how- 
ever, had it> effect and -lowly but surely it began to 
draw away from its older rival. Railroads began to 
centre here, industries came in and by reason not only 
of it- location, hut also of its thrift, energy and public 
-pit it of it- inhabitants, this city soon became what it 



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108 



BINGEAMTON PAST AND PRESENT. 



is to-day, the prosperous growing city and County Seal 
of one of the leadiDg counties of the Empire state 



his Annals that one Deacon Stow unearthed many 
silver trinkets of peculiar formation. One was of 
triangular shape about 



EARLTX NEARBY SETTLEMENTS. 

It is curious to note that the numerous villages 
which nestle among the hills of Broome, Chenango, 
Tioga and Chemung counties were invaded by white 
settlers about the same time between L784 and 17H4 
or thereabout. It is not always possible to fix dates 
accurately. A few of these settlements are noted in 
the following: 



round hok 
worn as a 
round. ab( 




confederation of tribes \\ hich became the Six Nations i 
the union of the Tuscaroras a few years before the 
events thai have made the races famous. A deeply 
worn Indian path is >till pointed out across the Oquaga 
mountains to the village, and again across the mount 
aitis on the opposite side. There were vasl orchards 
and grain fields in the valley, both pointing to a large 
and populous settlement. A grcal number of Indian 
bones, pottery, trinkets and rude weapons have been 
exhumed by the plowman for many years since the de 
parture of the lir.-t inhabitants. Wilkinson relates in 



nch across, flat, with a small 
;it one angle. It is supposed to have been 
1 ornament for the nose. The other was 
ut the size of a fifty-cent piece, also made of 
silver, and is thought to have been used as a pendant 
for the ear. 

The river side of the village was strongly fortified 
with unhewn logs, and the great number of arrow 
heads, broken hatchets and other weapons found about 

the fortification 
would indicate 
that battles 
there were not 
infrequent. It 
is also held that 
the fortifica- 
tions were con- 
st r u e t e d 1 >y 
General Clin- 
while on 
his way down 
he Susque- 
hanna to join 
General Sulli- 
van, bul there 
i- nothing to 
support this 
view. Clinton 
destroyed the 
villa g e a t 
s the Indians did not contest 
that point, nor did he halt there, it is not 
t he threw up the ponderous breastworks 
v the early white inhabitants. More likely 
ere built by Brant and his British allies, as 
command was quartered there during the 



part 

wintc 

Th 

little. 



irk: 

if 1 

• of ITss • 

■ tirst whit 
White n 



missionaries 
were drivei 



settler at that place was David Doo- 
e men had appeared among the Indians as 
prior to Mr. Doolittle's coming, but all 

out at the opening of the French war. 



110 



BWGHAMTON PAST AND PRESENT. 



Mr. Doolittle was followed by many settlers, the maj chenango forks. 

,„i, v f them coming from Waterbury, Conn. The The settlement of what is now called Chenango Forks 

firsl settlement was made in 1788, although it was not was also made about this time, Thomas Gallup being 

until after 17'.':; thai any substantial foothold was the first white man to penetrate its wilds with the view 

gained by the whites. Among the pioneers was David of making it his home. Mr. Gallup lived alone near 

Hotchkiss and his two sons, John Garnsey, Secretary the junction of the Tioughnioga river with the Che- 

Harpur, Major Samuel Stow. Rosweil Higley, Lemuel nango, and was joined by John Barker soon after the 
Badger, John Stuart. Asa Judd, Capt. -I 



Edwi 



Knox, 
.1 Russell and 



Win. Moore. Isaac Churche 
Jonathan Andrus. 

This anecdote is related of Samuel Slow to illustrate 
the hardihood of those early residents : The year 1794 
brought 
of the 



lestructive Hood which destroyed the crops r ang in the deep pine wo< 



close of the Indian war. The next comers were Sim- 
eon Rogers and Gen. John Patterson who. however, 
moved some distance up the river at what is now 
Whitney's Point. A -lames Lampeer built his cabin 
in the same vicinity. Among others whose axes soon 
.John Allen. Asa 
Beach, So 1 o- 
m o n Rose, a 
brother of Col. 
William Kose, 
one of the first 
settlers of 
B i n g h a mton, 
David Corn- 
wall, Ebenezer 
Tracy, Moses 
Adams, James 
Richards, Jona- 
han Cow-dry, 
Robert Parce 
and the Sey- 
mour brothers, 
i n a n d 
i d. The 
the nearest mill to lie ground. This South side of the Tioughnioga belonged to the Boston 
cated at Whattles Ferry. He carried back company, and the North side to Mr. Hornby, an 
the ground meal the next day. and the whole neighbor- Englishman whose patent embraced some 90,000 acres. 

I, 1 gathered together and held a sort of jolification. The country was quite thickly inhabitated by Indians. 

Bears grease was used for .-urinary purposes instead of all of whom seemed to belong to the Mohawk tribe. 
lard. The firsl settlers were reduced almost to star- They were peaceable and well disposed toward their 
vation by the failure of crops and the long distance to white neighbors excepting when under the influence of 
adepol of Bupplies. What was true of Oquago ap- liquor, which had already made its appearance with the 
plied also with nmre or les's force to other pioneer resi other accessories of civilization. 

dents of this locality. Oquaga is still a very small The wife of Simeon Rogers was set upon by nine 
place, li lies in one of the most beautiful valleys of drunken braves at her home one day. One of the 
Ihe s tate. party was a young Mohawk chief named Antoiie by 




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B1NGHAMT0N PAST AND PRESENT. 



the French, and known generally as "the Prince." 
Mrs. Rogers threw herself upon his protection, and 
the Indian, undoubtedly flattered by this mark of dis- 
tinction, took her part, severely thrashing and kicking 
several of the band who insisted upon molesting the 
woman. One of them, a worthless fellow called David 
was so seriously injured that he was left for dead. He 
afterward recovered and was shot. 

The first grist mill in the entire locality was built at 
Chenango Forks aboul 1802. Prior to that time grain 
had to he ground at Tioga Point or Whattles Ferry. 

I Mi IN \NH VESTAL. 

It was not until aboul a year after the settlement of 
the Chenango valley that white settler.- found their 
way into what are now Union and Vestal. The earliest 
inhabitants were Major David Barney, who came from 
Cooperstown soon after Gen. Clinton's raid, and John 
Harvey. One of the most prominent early residents 
was Gen. Oringh Stoddard, one of the commissioners 
delegated by the Boston company to treat with the 
Indian-. He was the father of Judge Stoddard, who 
was al-o a prominent and influential factor in the early 
history of the village. His brother, James Stoddard. 
was one of the first settlers of Lisle. 

A few weeks after the arrival of those just men- 
tioned the little colony was augmented by the incoming 
of Nehcmiah Spaulding and Walter Saliins. the latter 
being employed by the Huston company to survey the 
locality. Other residents of about the same date were 
(apt. William Brink and Henry Richards. Captain 
Brink was a Hollander, and one of the hardiest of 
those intrepid men and women who iirst caused the 
New World wildernesses to bloom. He lived to see 
almost ninety years of life and won local renown by 
cradling live acre- of grain on his seventieth birthday. 
It is al-o related of him that he held a hear by the hind 
legs until a companion dispatched it with an ax. 

Among those who settled in and about Union, and 

win. subsequently became well known were Ezekiel 

i , Amos Patterson, Joshua and John Mercereau. 



Mr. Patterson became Judge of Broome county ; Mr. 
Crocker was one of the sixty proprietors of the Boston 
purchase, and .lame- Mercereau was one of the first 
judges of Tioga county. He was also one of the first 
agents for the Hooper and Wilson patents. The two 
Mercereaus were the first to found a stage line lietweeu 
New York and Philadelphia. John introduced the first 
posl coach that ever ran in the United States. Both 
served under Gen. Washington during the Revolution, 
and were employed on many difficult expeditions. It 
is -aid that the Mercereau brothers assisted Washing- 
ton very materially in crossing the Delaware river 
when pursued by the British, and that but for their 
forethought several boats would have been left for the 
enemy to cross with. They returned after the colonial 
forces were safely over and found two large boats sunk 
along the shore which had been placed there by the 
Royalists. A large number of Judge and John Mer- 
cereau's descendents still live in Union. They were of 
French Huguenot extraction. 

( >THER SETTLEMENTS. 

Other early settlements were at Whitney's Point, 
Lisle and Greene. All were included in the Hornby 
patent of 90,000 acres. Greene was first called 
Hornby, and named later after the famous General 
Greene of Revolutionary fame. Its first inhabitant 
was Conrad Sharpe, who came about 1794 and was 
followed within a year by a number of Dutch families 
and French refugees, among the latter being a Captain 
Juliand, grandfather of the Juliands now living there. 
About the same year IT'.'D the place was visited by 
Tallyrand the distinguished French statesman. He 
-pent a night at the home of ('apt. Sawtelle at Port 
Dickinson. A French gentleman named Dutremont 
caught the fancy of Tallyrand and accompanied him to 
France as his private secretary. 

A large mound was discovered about two miles South 
of Greene, which upon excavation in L829 was found 
to contain great heaps of human bones. It i- supposed 
to have been an Indian burial ground. 



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BINGHAMTON PAST AND PRESENT. 



; 1 i ,1 i i \. M.iyi of the •' Parlor City" is a native ol tin- 
county, having been bom at Kirkwood August 30, 1858. lie is a true 
representative of the self-made men of to-day, his patent- having 

been primitive farmers in the town of Fenton in the neighbor! 1 

oi Ballahack. At the age of 14 lie entered the general store ol I- 
F. Keel 1 md here received his first lessons in co 

He subsequently engaged with J. E. Waite at Tuscorora, (town of 
Windsor, Broome Co.,) in the capacity of clerk in a large store an 1 re 
mained there two years. In 1S78 he came to Binghamton and was em 
ployed by Jerome Shaw in his grocery which was then at the cornet oi 
Main and Edward streets and for a short time previ 
mem with Ford & Evans 
he traveled for Mills Ely 
& Co. During this time 
while he was getting a 
practical knowledge of 
business, he was adding 
to his education by de- 
voting in- time to books 
in the evening and long 
into the night. Soon 
after he became con 
« ith this firm he 
built up for them a hand- 
fholesale trade 
and as a reward for his 
iter the 
retirement of Mr. Evans 
he was admitted as a 
partner with Hoi 
ney A. lord, the firm 
! ird .v 
1 three and a 
half years 'alien Mr. 
ii the 
• - and 
lat t i Mil M, . 
is conducted the 
as general sales 
agent for the P.erwind- 



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ing 

I. it'll he gives 
entire pei 

1 has 

eminently successful. Mr. Gt from his real estate 

president of the Bund) VI 

rlnerinthe 
"i of Hath.i . , ' kholder in the Binghamton 

■ 
. V V. When quite a voting man he took 
politics and after being in ion several 

: nominated and elected alderman foi 
e t the 10th, nth and 12th 
11 he acted as president ol 



alderman he always championed the cause of public improvement and 
the present sewer system and the asphalt pavement is the result of his 
indefatigable efforts. He was nominated for the mayoralty in 1889 and 
defeated by Frank H. Stephens the Democratic nominee and again 
ted in 1893 when he defeated Hon. Benajah S. Curran then act- 
ing mayor by a majority of S54. His Democratic predecessor having 
received a majority of 681. His administration thus far has been 
singularly popular, his appointments having given general satisfaction 
ami only the most capable and efficient parties have been given positions, 
and all his acts have been characterized by prudent and conservative 
action. An important adjunct to the city's advancement to which much 
credit is due the mayor 
is the selection of lling- 
haniton for the Com- 
mercial Travelers Home 
which will add largely 
to it- fame over the en- 
tire United States. He 
is president of the Board 
of Trade, a 32nd degree 
Mason, member oi the 
Irder of Red 
Men, in which he has 
held the highest office 
in the state, member of 
the K. of P., I!. P. O. 
E.,the Binghamton < Hub, 
Republican I 
Yoik city, president of 
the Republican league 
■ ■I the -lat..- oi New 
York, and connected 
with other societies. I le 
has an extensive ac- 

ig business 
men. Mr. G 

by his own ] 1 
won his way 
and prominence. In all 
he has ever 
ed an incor- 




:iiy and an 
unblemished 
11 married in February, [880, and has one promising 

I ', rick street. Mr. 

Green has been mentioned as a probable candidate 
this stair ii in political circles, and the wisdom which he 

has always displayed in the conduct of affairs entrusted to him make 
, political elevation exceedingly promising. The high 
rank that he has already won in Republican councils is certain! 

Above all, Mr. Green's charactei is with- 
out a stain, his political and business eaten being absolutely without 



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The subject of thi 
ipilation of the his 

1, and ret 



5 sketch, In as. H. Turner, to whom » 
torical pari of this book, was born of Gi 
red in Ulster county, this slate. He 



Hillsdale (Mich.) College, being a classr 
poet and lecturer. In 1880 Mr. Turner 
that of harness-making, for a time. In 



of Will Carlton, the well-known 
: to this city, working at his trade. 
2 he began the study of law in the 
office o) Vrms & inns, remaining there about two years. During this period 
he became a contributor to such periodicals as the Century, the Leslie publi- 
cations, Tid-Bits, Pn,k, and a number of story papers. His poetical work 
attracted the attention "f ('has. M. Dickinson, the publisher of the Bingham- 
ton A Publican, Mr. Turner subsequently becoming a contributor to the Sun- 
day edition of that journal, and winning several prizes offered fot excellence in 
poetical composition. A few months later he obtained the position . >t news 
editor of the Republican, becoming its managing editor within a year, a pos 
ition which he held until 1SS0. when, with II. A. Stanley, then busini 
ager of the same paper, he purchased the Binghamton Evening Herald. 
Under the direction of these two gentlemen the then death-smitten Herald 
iivelously, it soon becoming the most widely distributed and influential 
journal in the Parlor City. In [893 Mr. Turner sold the greater part of his 
interest in the Herald to a stock corporation and retired. He has since then 
given his time to literature, and found favor with such periodicals j< 

,1 1 Frank 1 Won xly. Mr. 

Turner excels in the delineation of the hun ns whethei in prose oi 



hich was also embodied .n the Herald until editor 

I ira M Whitney, only daughter of Joseph B. \\ hitn 



During his connection with the 

reason of a humorous paragraph departn 

became too manifold for its en 

Triangle, this county. 



11 obtained 
which he conducted, ; 
In 1886 Mr. Turner was 



by 



tram. 



Michaei I. Garvey, born in Binghamton, Broome Co., N. Y., October 10, 1858. 

and Elizabeth (Keller) Garvey. The father was well known ii 

for many years. Our subject was educated and gradu 

- parochial academy in his native city 
early to support himself, and was first engaged in the employ 
aw anna >\ Western Railway Company, and by faithfi 



He started out in life very 
nt of the 1 lelaware, 1 .a< k- 

attention to business during his 



on nee lion with the road, was promoted to various ; 

West Shore railway, and resided in Syracuse, X. V. 
there he became superintendenl of the Syracuse ,\ Baldwinsville railway. 
ttention to this business, Mr. Garvey returned to Bit 



ust. He was 

While living 
Aftei several 

elected to the honor; t City Clerk, which he held during the yi ars of 189] 2, 

having been the choice of the Democratic council then in power. In 1S0:, Mr. Garvey 
n the hotel business with James F. Doyle, and keeps the well known "Ex- 
situated on Court street, the most prominent thoroughfare in Bingham- 
ton. Thi elry has be:n remodeled and refitted throughout, and the 
travelei ■ re of a comfortable home a 1 ■ . dations. 
• i ; th ward in 
I 
Health and City Buildings and property. In 1S01. Mr. Garvey was main 
Anna Sinnott, who was born in Ireland, bin 1 with her parents when but 
Mr. and Mrs. Garvey are prominent members of the Catholic t hun h. 
and Mr. Garvey is a mem 518 of th' Catholii Knight 

No. Ill, Catholic Mutual Benefit Association articularly 

fortunate in his matrimonial choice, Mrs. Garvey being a lady ni rgy and 

ability and well tmed to assist him in his preseni I! lother, Mrs. Sinnott, who was early left a wid unaided efforts raised 

a family of daughte yroungest married, and pi y and comfortable homes. 




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The Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association, of New York, stands fourth to-day in the 

list of big companies. It writes insurance at aboul one-half the usual rates. It has paid nearly $20, » 

in death losses since organization. It has aboul 6300, ,000 insurance in force, and its Reserve Fund or 

actual cash approximates §4,000.000. This vast sum will be paid back to policy holders in dividends. It 
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GENERAL AGENT. 



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B1NGHAMT0N PAST AND PRESENT. 
THE BINGHAMTON HERALD. 




The Evening Herald is 
probably the greatest news- 
paper success, considering 
its age, in the state of New 
York. There may be papers 
of greater circulation and 
making more money, but 
there is no daily of its age 
in a city llif size of Bing- 
hamton, thai lias as great a 



A type web press had been 
leased, ami Jan. 1st, 1891 
saw 415o circulation. 
About tins time, or a month 
or two before, the Leased 
web bad been exchanged 
for a bran new $7,000 
stereotype web. and the 
Herald had been enlarged 
to an eight column folio. 



bona- fide circulation, or that is 
so universally respected and 
relied upon by its constituency. 
Founded as a live column folio, 
Feb. 28th, 1—'.'. by .). 11. 
Briggs, of Elmira, and I-'.. II. 
Bogert, of Binghamton, it 
sunk between $4,000 and $5,- 

< the first six months of its 

existence. September 1st of 
thai year, it was purchased by 
Chas. II. Turner, managing 
editor, and Hiram A. Stanley, 
business manager of the /•'• 
publican, who resigned their 
positions to go in for them 






I). VAN ami'.i ia.il. 
Via Fret and Adv. Mgr. 

witha Saturday quarto edition 

of twice the size. Jan. 1st, 
fv.'-_' it had 5,150 circulation, 
notwithstanding its compet- 
itors had seen fit to concert- 
edly cut subscription rates 
from ti.5 and 50 cents per 
month respectively, to 25 cents 
each and sent out a score or 
more of canvassers, with the 
professed intention of wiping 
the HERALD off the face of the 
earth. The Herald did noth- 
ing in the way of retaliation, 
except to get out the best 
paper it could and Jan. 1st, 



selves. It was then sinking 1893, could boast of 6,250 

$160 per week. Tin' first circulation, and had added 

four months of their rule. the largest and best job 

it continued to sink money, office in the city. Some- 

and had eaten nearly $4,000 what later, it addedasteam 

of their money. It had 
nearly doubled in circula 
ion however, having 2,750 
subscribers -Ian. 1st. 1 890, 
and had been enlarged from 
a live to a mx column folio. 



bindery, capable of making 
all the finest blank books. 
and in addition to its news 
paper business, was fast be 
coming what it now is. a 
firsi class publishing house, 




BINGUAMTON PAST AND PRESENT. 






printing and binding the finesl books, in competition 
with the largesl concerns of the United States. April 
15th, 1893, it purchased the circulation of the Evening 
a recent defunct attempt at newspaper business, 
and added temporarily to its list, some 1,800 circu- 
lation. Many of these were not good paying sub 
scribers, as there are always about 800 of such in a 
eit\ the size of Binghamton, waiting for the Btart of a 
new paper, and these were cut from its list, until < )cto 
ber 1st, 1893, it had about 7.000 circulation. About 
this time it was found necessary 
of the business, to incorporate 
as a stock company, and the 
Evening Herat d Company was 
incorporated < >ct. 1st. with a 
paid in capital of $40,000. At 
this time Mr. Turner retired. 
selling his half interest to the 
new company, which was of- 
ficered as follows: Pres. II. 
A. Stanley. Vice Pres., V. D. 
VanAmburgh; Managing Edi- 
tor, G. VV. Beardsley ; Secre 
tary and Treasurer. H. .1. 
Mitchell; Manager Circulation, 
II. V. Bogert. These we 




lation consequently increased. From its original 

Boor -| ■ of 15x30 feet, the three tl -s of n building 

18x105 were in use, besides outside Btorc houses for 
stock, but these were inadequate, and a line lot having 
been purchased, extending from Water to Centre 
streets, 1274 feet along Henry, plans were drawn for 
a new home, a cut of which is here given. At this 
nine an effort was made to rebuild Ihi 
with an idea of increasing its -peed, but while the men 
were at work upon it, an accident happened, compelling 
nd faster press, eo»t'n 
This delayed the election of the 
building for a year at 
least, but with the new im- 
provement, business came in 
faster than ever, and June 
15th, of 189-t the Herald was 
once more enlarged, ra 
an eight column quarto, and 
the largest paper in its field as 
well a- the largest penny paper 
in the state. It- editorial and 
ne w - col u in n s have been 
strengthened and it is by all 
in its field recognized as the 
leader in worth, as it stands 



UMJULRM 

M..ekl...lder- and ntlieer- a... , ^ F f ^ f t" "£■ t * : f' } 'fc !M __^_ ready to prove it is. I 
acting as . Board of Directors. ±-^^^-^^ *- »***K£~ ,,.,„■■„. It has ,o-da, 



they appointed the following 
heads of departments: Man 
ager Foreign Advertising, X. the herald's I'koi 

M. Sheffield, room s .". Tribune building, New York 
City; Manager Foreign Circulation, R. B. Georgia; 
Manager of Collections, A. I >. Legg : Manager Weekly 
Herald Circulation, E. E. Nichols; Manager Bindery, 
J. F. Swanney ; Manager Book and Job Department, 
Owen , I. Donnelly. These with several able foremen 
for various minor positions, and a well drilled force of 
workmen, made an equipment equal to the first-class 
mechanical equipment already mentioned, and the Her 
ald's business began to boom as never before. The 
daily and weekly editions were enlarged from an eight 
column folio to a seven column quarto, and the circu- 



sket 

torial colui 

l.ooo mor 
petitors at 



he Hi 



circulation c \ cecd i n a : 
copies, and this is fast inereas- 
»ing. i D g. At the date 

srald has standing at the head of 
i an offer of $100 to charity, if it has not 
ital circulation than any of its local corn- 
is not at all backward about opening up 
its hooks. It believes that every advertiser has a per- 
fect right to know it- exact circulation and is the only 
paper in its field with open pre— rooms. It remains 
an independent new -paper and for the reason that it is 
so in every sense of the word, is looked upon and -up- 
ported b) ever} body. In return for such liberal patron 
age, it proposes in the future as in the pas 
patron- the very best paper their patronage will afford. 



BINGHAMTON PAST AND PRESENT. 




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COMMERCIAL TBAVELERS HOME, BINGHAMTON, N. V. 



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in 1 hi State of New Vork, 
LOCKPORT, N. V., July 24th, [894. \ 

S. D. W. < lairman, 

Hotel Bei m, N. V. 

- •: — 1. \V. Grumm I, of your committee, has called u]>on 

: and extended a cordial invitation to lay the corner stone of 
the proposed building of the Commercial Travelers' Home Association 
of America, at Binghamton the 9th of October, 1894. This building 
you intend erecting for the shelter and protection of the more unfortu- 



nate members of your association, is an enterprise to be commended, 
and one worthy of emulation by the best citizens of our country. On be- 
half of the Masonic Fraternity, I cheerfully accept the invitation and 
assure you that Ancient Oaf 1 Masonrj IS always willing and ready to 
aid and assist all good work of this character. I have instructed our 
Grand Secretary. Col. 1 M. 1.. Killers, to formally accept the invita- 
tion and notify the Grand Lodge officers, and the Fraternity to assist 
me in the performance of this duty. Yours Very Truly. 

Ji iHN HOIX 1 . Crand Master. 




The subject of this sketch, Mr. F. W. GRUMMOND, is a member of the large cigar manu- 
facturing firm of Hull, Grummond & Co, Binghamton, N. V.. and is a well-known traveling 
National Board of .Managers of the C. T. II. A. of A., and did 
much to make this organization a success. He is also an enthusiastic Mason. He was largely 
instrumental in locating the Commercial Travelers' Home in Binghamton. Mr. (Irummond is a 
veteran commercial traveler although a young man in years. He has sold cigars on the road for a 
time than any other cigar salesman in the city and the constantly increasing business of 
the firm bespeaks his abilities in this line. He has a pleasing personality and is deservedly 
popular with all classes, lie is a self-made man and it is to his untiring industry and indom- 
itable perseverance that he owes the by no means modest success he has attained. In his busi- 
ness life he is eminently fair and upright, and his politic course has been a by no means unim- 
portant factor in aiding him to attain the high position he holds in the commercial world to-day. 
H 3 a beautiful moden Morgan street in this city, a 

lied with all that contributes to domestic comfort and happiness. As yet a young man 
: with continued success, a reward which he richly deserves. 



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